Kalighat Pat Painting in Colonial Kolkata: Urban Transformation, Social Critique, and Museumisation
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- Catalogue identifier
- kali-batch4-28
- Alternate titles and import identifiers
- Batch 4 source 28
- Author or attribution
- Chandrama Paul
- Record type
- Article
- Language
- English
- Date / edition
- 2026
- Source / repository
- International Journal for Multidisciplinary Research
- Access
- Open access
- Subjects
- Kali Library Research Batch 4; Academic Research and Document Studies; Contextual and Related-Form Sources
Description and curator notes
Documents the transformation of Kalighat pat painting around the temple, from locally made devotional images into the market and museum economies of colonial and modern Kolkata. Useful for iconography, visual heritage, and community context.
Kali Library Research Batch 4, source 28.
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Attribution: Chandrama Paul • Date: 2026
Verified item: Complete 13-page art-history research article PDF
Documents the transformation of Kalighat pat painting around the temple, from locally made devotional images into the market and museum economies of colonial and modern Kolkata. Useful for iconography, visual heritage, and community context.
Full text: https://www.ijfmr.com/papers/2026/3/80335.pdf
Editorial note: Contextual focus includes Kalighat painting broadly, not exclusively depictions of Kali.
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Citation
Chandrama Paul. Kalighat Pat Painting in Colonial Kolkata: Urban Transformation, Social Critique, and Museumisation. International Journal for Multidisciplinary Research. 2026. Complete 13-page art-history research article PDF.
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