West Bengal
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Introduction
Bishnupur, a municipal town in the modern day Bankura district in West Bengal, was a centre of music, art, and architecture for hundreds of years. Among other things, the town is well-known for its terracotta temples, extensively embellished with carved and moulded terracotta…
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Legend has it that in the year 102 of the Malla Era or 695 CE, a lady died while giving birth to a son in a forest at Laugram, six miles from Kotulpur, in modern Bankura district. Her husband was a Rajput (from Sanskrit ‘raja-putra’) or a prince from northern India, and they were both travelling to…
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Hosayn cries, Oh superior Mother
I prayed for water from you
You did not give me water
You never cared how my heart was torn in thirst
I have become a martyr in Karbala.
(translation of 'Imam-Bicched Jari', quoted in Jasimuddin, Jarigan, 1968)
Jarigaan is a performance genre in the folksong…
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A short video on the rituals of Chhath Puja performed on the banks of Ganga
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Chatterjee, K., 2009. Cultural flows and cosmopolitanism in Mughal India The Bishnupur Kingdom. Indian Economic & Social History Review, 46(2), pp.147-182.
Chatterjee, S. 2016. Bishnupur Terracotta Temples and the Representation of Elephants as Panel Work: An Evaluation.
Das, C. Nilanjana…
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Jute is an eco-friendly and bio-degradable natural product with no adverse effect on the environment. The processing of jute varieties such as Corchorus capsularis - white jute (Sada paat) and Hibiscus cannabinus (Mesta paat) are mainly used for jute cultivation in West Bengal nowadays.
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Translated and edited transcript
Question: Jute as we know is an eco-friendly product. What is the civil and the mechanical prospect of jute…the commercial prospect I mean. If you can kindly tell us about it.
Pradeep Chowdhury: See, jute has many versatile uses. You may know that Jute Research…
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Question: Prafulla Chakraborty was directly involved with the Kanoria jute mill movement. Would you kindly tell us more about the Kanoria jute mill movement? When it started? Why it started?
Prafulla Chakraborty: In 1992 the momentum for the Kanoria jute mill…
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