ভারতের চিত্রকলা

A short account of the progress of Indian painting. The author had chosen a large time scale to describe the journey and evolution of paintings in Indiand subcontinental. From ancient time to Harappan time and from medieval era to 18th century Indian style of paintings have been explained here with various references of western author. The author simultenously used Indian artists' point of view about painting to enrich the book. Custodial history: Shyamal Bera, M.A., Ph.D., live in Howrah district of West Bengal, is a private collector of endangered manuscripts, teracotta objects, Pat (Scroll paintings), folk songs and folk dramas etc of Bengal. By profession he is a school teacher(retired). He is founder secretory of Kolaghat Loksanskriti Gabeshana Kendra o Sangrahashala (Kolaghat Folk Culture Research Centre and Museum) and Dwija Harideva Sangrahashala o Gabeshana Kendra (Dwija Harideva Museum and Research Centre). He is running a Little Magazine on Folk Culture 'Samikshapatra Lokayat' since 2003. He has done many survey project on verious genre, mostly on Folk culture of rural Bengal. Present scanned collections (books, manuscripts and periodicals) have been collected by Shyamal Bera himself. He has generously allowed the archive team to get access to this material for digitization and as per the copyright rules and regulations. Administrative context: The CSSSC, on realising the importance of copying the collection applied for a grant to the EAP against which EAP921 has been awarded. Calendar: Common Calendar. Extent and format of original material: One bound volume of printed book. Physical characteristics: Very brittle, worm eaten. The original volume with length of 24 cm. Owner(s) of original material: Dr. Shyamal Bera. Author(s) of original material: Ashok Mitra. Publisher of original material: Calcutta: Bengal Publishers.