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Pbk. 153 Colour Illustrations (illustrator). Contents I Essays 1 Kalighat Paintings and the V&A collections 2 Kalighat Paintings at Victoria Memorial Hall 3 Kalam Patua from the interstices of the city Materials and Techniques of Kalighat Paintings Catalogue 1 Religious Subjects Gods and Goddesses 2 Scenes from the Life of Krishna 3 Scenes from the EpicsThe Ramayana 4 The Mahabharata 5 Social Commentaries Proverbs and Animals 6 British and European Influence 7 The Tarakeshwar Affair 8 Named Artists and the End of the Century 9 Kalighat Themes in Different Media 10 Contemporary Kalighat Painting Kalighat painting evolved as a unique painting style in the rapidly urbanizing cityscape of 19th-century Kolkata Reflecting a new language these paintings recorded the changes in lifestyles values and a new visual vocabulary brought forth by lithographic presses and studio photography The artists who developed the Kalighat painting style were traditional scroll painters patuas In catering to the transient urban populace the artists let go on of their linear narrative styles and adopted single pictures with one or two figures The traditionally inherited techniques and iconography were blended with the use of watercolours and Western academic shading to show frames of a changing society This volume accompanies the touring ?Kalighat Paintings? exhibition organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum London in collaboration with the Victoria Memorial Hall Kolkata in late 2011 The V&A London holds the single largest collection of Kalighat paintings and this is the first exhibition of the collection in India Best examples from the collections and contemporary Kalighat paintings are illustrated in this book Supporting essays reveal the importance of these collections and also highlight the era in which this painting thrived and the techniques that were used by the artists 112 pp.