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Thomas & William Daniell's 'Oriental Scenery'1797
c.British Library
this stone pavilion was built by Tirumala Nayakar on east side of Madurai Fort was used during religious festivals, did they learnt in India about such open spaces, verandah etc due to tropical weather
#Nana Phadnavis played a pivotal role in holding Marathas together during internal dissension & growing power of British East India Company. As they tried all types of conspiracy? without any ethics. he was said to be good administrator-planner, many were afraid of his strategies
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unusual? very few will notice such craft? pole decorator? one who decorates the pole, since nowdays no such poles r used, earlier every time these are used, required, either for tents, shamianas, etc
but company painters captured every minute details of Indian culture
earlier we used to travel by bullock carts, on occasions it was appropriately decorated, either marriage, or going for a Mela?
William Tayler(1842-45) was a civil servant of East India Company, was commissioner of Patna in 1855. i have traveled on such type in village
two showing washerman, one had donkey commonly thought off as carriers, but other has a bullock-ox, quite different from common perception. regional variations too are evident in company paintings.
from turban it looked close to Maratha- or mysore?
but snake charmer and his wife holding he snaked looked as if from Tanjore area, Tamil Nadu?
company #painting
irrigation
earlier way of irrigation, taking out water from well required bullocks, the filled pot when came above, a person turns it or un-fill it? so that water flows down to agricultural fields through a canal
Raj Company #painting