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Resource Masterlist: Indian Art

Cheap/Free resources:

Wkipedia:

Wikipedia of Indian Art: I'll recommend reading the subtopics from bottom up; it seems more relevant that way!

Wikipedia of Indian Painting: once you go through this article you should further look into whichever style you like, and learn it in depth. It also has links to vernacular art.

Rasa: the classical theory of Indian aesthetics

From Archive.Org (maybe scholarly and/or illustrative. In case illustrations are not there, simply Google them for reference):

Stone Age Painting in India by Romert Brooks

The arts of India from prehistoric to modern times by Ajit Mookerji (If you have no idea about Indian arts, START HERE; it's a short book full of illustrations)

Rajput painting : romantic, divine and courtly art from India by Ahluwalia, Roda

Indian Painting by C Sivaramamurti

South Indian Paintings by C Sivaramamurti

Approach to nature in Indian art and thought by C Sivaramamurti

[There are many books on Indian art, architecture and sculpture by C Sivaramamurti on Archive.org. It's basically a goldmine.]

Kalighat : Indian popular painting, 1800-1930 by Balraj Khanna

Art of modern India by Balrak Khanna [Again, you can check out other titles by Khanna.]

Indian Textiles by John Gillow

Traditional Indian Textiles by John Gillow

South-Indian images of gods and goddesses by HK Sastri

Myths and symbols in Indian art and civilization by Heinrich Zimmer (no illustrations)

The art of Indian Asia, its mythology and transformations by Heinrich Zimmer (with illustrations)

History of Indian and Indonesian art by Ananda Coomaraswamy

A Concise History of Indian Art by Roy C Craven

Deccani Painting by Mark Zebrowski

Indian Folk Art by Heinz Mode; Subodh Chandra

Women of India by Otto Rothfeld (this isn't about art but has few informative illustrations on regional costumes of women)

Dress And Ornaments In Ancient India by Mohini Verma and Keya Bawa

Classical dances and costumes of India by Ambrose, Kay

Cultures and Costumes of India and Sri Lanka by Kilgallon, Conor (o course i had to see other books on costumes)

Studies In Indian Painting by DB Taraporevala

Five Thousand Years of Indian Art by Hermann Goetz

Indian Painiting by Philip Rawson

The Art of Tantra by Philip Rawson

MS Randhawa (different books on Punjabi paintings Basohli, Kangra, Guler and General Themes in Indian Painting)

The imperial image: paintings for the Mughal court by Beach, Milo Cleveland

Wonders of nature : Ustad Mansur at the Mughal court by Dāśa, Aśoka Kumāra

Imperial mughal painting by Welch, Stuart Cary

Painted delight : Indian paintings from Philadelphia collections

India : life, myth and art by Ram-Prasad, Chakravarthi

The heritage of Indian art by Agrawala, Vasudeva Sharana

The adventures of Rama : with illustrations from a sixteenth-century Mughal manuscript

Indian paintings from the Punjab Hills by WG Archer

Art in East and West by Rowland Benjamin

Stella Kramisch (An American art historian and curator who was a leading specialist on Indian art, including folk art, for most of the 20th century. Also a Padma Bhushan awardee.)

The transformation of nature in art by Coomaraswamy, Ananda K

Books available on Libgen:

Art Of Ancient India : Buddhist, Hindu, Jain by Huntington and Huntington

The New Cambridge History of India, Volume 1, Part 3: Mughal and Rajput Painting

Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization by Heinrich Zimmer

Four Centuries of Rajput Painting: Mewar, Marwar and Dhundhar Indian Miniatures from the Collection of Isabelle and Vicky Ducrot

Ajanta by Yazdani

The Aesthetic Experience Acording to Abhinavagupta

TheHeritageLab is a free website to connect you to cultural heritage through stories, public engagement programs, campaigns, and free-access content.

Also if you're in Delhi, do consider getting a membership of Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) library.

Folk art:

Folk art is an entirely different area that deserve a post of its own. But i love them so here is a long list by Memeraki.com. You can Google each and then look more into what you like. This website also offers very cheap courses in traditional Indian arts by the hidden and disenfranchised masters themselves! It's doing a great work in giving them a platorm. I myself have taken the Mughal Miniature course here. You can consider it.

Illustrated Books:

Note: These are coffee table books with beautiful illustrations that you'd love to looks at.

The Night Life of Trees: In the belief of the Gond tribe, the lives of humans and trees are closely entwined. A visual ode to trees rendered by tribal artists from India, this handcrafted edition showcases three of the finest living Gond masters. THIS YOUTUBE LINK shows the making of the book. The channel also features other works of Gond art.

An Unknown Treasure in Rajasthan: The Bundi Wall-Paintings:  This book celebrates the surviving wall-paintings at Bundi by presenting a stunning photographic survey

Painting In the Kangra Valley: Painting in the Kangra Valley is an attempt to survey the painting styles of Guler and Kangra, which flourished in the 18th and 19th centuries. The painting activity began with Kashmiri painters (...)

Indian Painting: The Lesser Known Traditions: India has an astonishingly rich variety of painting traditions. While miniature painting schools became virtually extinct with the decline of aristocratic patronage, a number of local vernacular idioms still survive and continue to develop.

Madhubani Art: Indian Art Series: Madhubani art's origin is believed to go back to the ancient era of the Ramayana, when the town was decorated by inhabitants of the region for the wedding of Lord Rama and Sita with elaborate wall paintings and murals (...) Primarily a significant socio-cultural engagement for the womenfolk of Bihar, this art was a welcome break from their daily drudgery.

Reflections on Mughal Art and Culture: Enter the splendid world of Mughal India and explore its rich aesthetic and cultural legacy through fresh insights offered by 13 eminent scholars.

Monsoon Feelings: A History of Emotions in the Rain: Through a series of evocative essays exploring rain-drenched worlds of poetry, songs, paintings, architecture, films, gardens, festivals, music and medicine, this lavishly illustrated collection examines the history of monsoon feelings in South Asia from the twelfth century to the present

Sita's Ramayana shifts the point of view of the Ramayana - the saga of a heroic war - to bring a woman's perspective to this timeless epic. Illustrated with Patua painting.

Adi Parva: Churning of the Ocean: a graphic novel that is a revisionist retelling of some of our oldest tales which have inspired and guided generations of people.

Ajit Mookerji, Sivaramamurti and Craven Roy's books are concise from where one can begin and then delve deeper into the subject of interest. Reading history and myths behind the work for context and listening to music from the given time/region alongside will make the exploration even more enjoyable!

आत्तसज्जधनुषा विषुस्पृशा वक्षया शुगनिषङ्‌ग सङि‌गनौ । रक्षणाय मम रामलक्ष्मणा वग्रत: पथि सदैव गच्छताम्‌ ॥ Rama and Lakshmana, their bows pulled and ready, their hands on the arrows (packed) in ever full quivers (carried on their backs), may they always escort me in my path, for my protection. संनद्ध: कवची खड्‌गी चापबाणधरो युवा । गच्छन्‌मनोरथोSस्माकं राम: पातु सलक्ष्मण: ॥ Ever prepared and armed with sword, shield and bows and arrows and followed by Lakshman , Rama who is like our cherished thoughts come to life, may he, along with Lakshmana protect us .

<<The two verses are part of the Ram Raksha Stotram. If you ever feel scared, try to listen to this stotram and remember Him. May Raghav, our beloved King, the sun of the Ikshvaku clan protect the innocent and lead the armed forces.>>

Jai Hanuman

The reality of "Kashmiri students being harassed in India". Government of India pours shit ton of money on infra in Kashmir and Kashmiri youth to study in top institutions in Deli, Mumbai, Bangalore only so that these same pieces of shits can cry freely "free kashmir" and support t*rtorists who m*rder the only natives that is the Hindus. Fuck outta here with that.

Okay so I don't know which story you're referring to. So I'll just talk about both:

1. The Tridev take birth as Anusuya's sons

So Mata Anusuya was known for her divine powers and her wisdom and knowledge. Her husband was Rishi Atri. The Tridev once decided to test Mata Anusuya. They appear before her under the guise of rishis and ask her to serve them with zero clothes on her because they had taken a vow or something. Now, Anusuya ofcourse couldn't serve them that way, she's a pativrata and sati. So, she with her divine powers turns them into children and serves them food. And at some point during this whole exchange, she realises that they are the Tridev. And she refuses to turn them back in their actual selves. The Tridevi ofcourse had to intervene requesting Mata Anusuya to give them their husbands back. So, Mata Anusuya then asks for a boon that let the Tridev be born to me as sons. And the Tridev and the Tridevi all bless her with this boon. So yeah, that's how Shiv ji was born as Rishi Durvasa, Vishnu ji as Rishi Datt, and Brahma as Chandra.

2. About the siblings pairs

So we know Adi shakti is the primordial goddess in Hinduism (I'm a Shakti worshiper first and so I believe in that, Shaivs and Vaishnavs have their own beliefs). So, this goddess is formless, she's just a huge ball of energy. She divides this energy into 3 parts. Sattva - Maha Saraswati, Rajas - Maha Lakshmi, and Tamas - Maha Kaali. These goddesses then further created 2 beings each. Maha Saraswati - Vishnu and Gauri, Maha Lakshmi - Brahma and Lakshmi, and Maha Kaali - Shiv and Saraswati.

So no one ever told me about Ram ji roasting the moon and listing it faults because it's just not as beautiful as Maa Sita after looking at her once in the gardens? No one?

And then he just returned to his Guru like nothing happened? As if he didn't just talk to the moon and insult it?

I generally prefer Valmiki Ramayan but the Balkand in Ramcharitmanas is pure gold.

The last image is the one for me.

I followed him when he started posting about vishnu sahasranamam verses associated with each nakshatra and honestly since then I've been learning a LOT. But man today is angry angry

This sounds like "I'm friends with black people, so I can't be a racist".

Also, he might have actually fooled her into being with him, and since he said "my girl was", I'm going to assume she left him after seeing his real face. And the whole "relationship" must have lasted just a day. And who knows he might have intentionally sought her out to claim that "oh I dated a kashmiri pandit once" and then spew his own views and opinions.

????

Does this person has any thinking skills at all?

Oh I once had a romantic relationship with kashmiri pandit girl so it means i can't be hinduphobic!!!

......

Idk if he is trying to be dumb because his interactions with my friend Rhysaka proves he probably doesn't have any reading comprehension whatsoever. Here, he proves it yet again, for anyone that's curious, this is the post that he is referencing.

HE THINKS HES SMART CUZ HE DOESNT EVEN KNOW IF THERE ARE ANY OTHER LOK THAN MRITYU LOK OMGGGGGGGGG...

I'm genuinely laughing so hard 😆🤣🤣😭🤣🤣😭🤣

Every post of his is one embarassment after another! each sentence of this grown man is so damn ignorant, that his entire point becomes laughable. Sorry, I just can't take him seriously and would advise everyone else to do the same. He isn't worth engaging with.

Recent terrorist attack on Hindu Tourist (after confirming they're Hindus) should really tip you off, right? Or are you gonna find another way to blame attacks on hindu on Hindus yet again? But because you used to have a Kashmiri Girlfriend it exempts you from being a hinduphobe.

I have this in my drafts for so long now. But this was in the context of Shri Hari Vishnu and Bholenath. People tend to compare them too and try to put them against each other saying one is better than the other.

"My heart isn't so small that it can't give respect to both Shri Hari and Shiv Sambhu. My mind not so tiny to not comprehend that they're one."

No one can annoy me more than people who hate on Shree Ram but call themselves Krishna Bhakt or vice versa. Or compare these two to prove one lesser than the other.

They're the same person for god's sake.

If you think they would disagree with each other's actions then sorry to break it to you, you're just being stupid and don't understand anything about any of them.

Same goes for the people comparing Maa Laxmi, Sita, Radha and Rukmini.

THEY'RE THE SAME PERSON.

As a man, who's spent enough time in men's spaces to know how they think and why they act the way they act, I can say it's all because it is reinforced and backed by the men in that group. I think it's called peer influence.

One man alone will never act on his perverse thoughts, but once he comes across other men who think the same way, it becomes a daily conversation. They egg each other on. They encourage each other. Give each other that confidence.

( This applies to everything. Men interested in stock markets, men interested in global politics, men interested in sports. They bond over this shared/common interest. That's how a community works I mean )

We have so many examples of this, France's Gisele Pelicot case or the Bois locker room incident from Delhi or that group chat of some thousands of men.

No amount of shaming, no amount of education, no amount of legal action will change them, will fix them. Because there's always a bunch of men supporting them and blaming the victims. Because if you're not like them, you're not a man enough. You're weak, soft, omega, or simp, and what not.

everyone who supports a rapist or is a rapist himself is a threat to women. these ppl are sick in the head. you won't believe me when i say this but they don't even respect our goddesses and create their own communities on reddit where they masterbate to their images or abuse many girls....this is their way of showing how much they disrespect us...the way guys talk about women is traumatizing

this just makes me more sick. abhi bhi ghamand hai apne gender pe??? im asking all the men here who are still quiet