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tailor दर्जी is for stitching cloths? British did not bring sewing machine with them from Europe? Indian tailors stitched cloths for them, with full European styles? so brilliant were they in their art. they did the best, even fabric made in India was exported to Europe? Chintz?

most learned man despite of physical disability challenges Ashtavakra defeated rishis
19th century company painting, Patna kalam @britishmuseum
one who learned Ved etc while in womb. once pointed mistake of his father-he cursed unborn child with 8 vakra वक्र thus अष्टावक्र

@V_and_A scene changes as man goes to other lady's house? who is #economically independent?
man (the lover) squatting to touch feet of a courtesan, by Nibran Chandra Ghosh, Kalighat Painting, Kolkata, ca. 1900 @V_and_A
same happened all over, even in Lucknow. petty so called nawabs

here man strikes the lady & wife trying to ward off her husband's blows
atrocities on women were prevalent not just in Bengal but many other parts too.
domestic violence, by Nibaran Chandra Ghosh, Kalighat painting, Kolkata, ca. 1900 @V_and_A

can you make out what's story? not Elokeshi?
@V_and_A says wife at bowing at feet of her husband? he pulls sari & prepares to strike her?

domestic violence, by Nibaran Chandra Ghosh, Kalighat Painting, Kolkata, ca. 1900

what can you infer?
it reminds scene from Chitralekha? where sadhu was ridiculed by Ganika
संसार से भागे फिरते हो
भगवान को तुम क्या पाओगे
इस लोग को भी अपना ना सके
उस लोक में भी पछताओगे
for mortal men passion takes over mind?
painting frm Divan by Hafiz Safavid period Iran 1658-59

Sarinda
played by a musician, painting or etching by Frans Baltazard Solvyns from Les Hindoûs, 4 vol. his collection of paintings on India
@bonhams1793

one sarinda i shared earlier in thread from met Museum

shri raga ri ragini gavadi
Gaudi Ragini, more likely a variant of Todi Ragini
nayika Ascetic-Yogini playing veena
two male & two female deer watch
nimbate yogini who was perhaps once a princess?
Painting from thikana in Rajasthan or Central India. Bundelkhand @Sothebys lot801

Once I did #painting water colour with pastel colours on black paper, even displayed at library titled शरदोत्सव
#flowers
How is it?

#mother #motherhood #माँ #मातृत्व_दिवस is respected from Kashmir to Kanyakumari-Kerala Bengal everywhere on Bharat bhoomi
Charles William Bartlett
Jamini Roy
Raja Ravi Varma