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The Gods Sing and Dance for Shiva and Parvati, attributed to Khushala, son of Manaku. Kangra, c. 1780-1790. Philadelphia Museum of Art. Kangra painting (Hindi: कांगड़ा चित्रकारी) is the pictorial art of Kangra, named after the Kangra State, a former princely state of Himachal Pradesh, which patronized the art.
Guler State is famous as the birthplace of Kangra painting when in the first half of the 18th century, a family of Kashmiri painters trained in the Mughal painting style sought shelter at the court of Raja Dalip Singh (r. 1695–1741) of Guler. The rise of Guler Paintings or Guler style started what is known as the early phase of Kangra art. [3]
Guler State was famous as the cradle of the Kangra paintings. Guler painting is the early phase of Kangra Kalam. About the middle of the eighteenth century some Hindu artists trained in Mughal style sought the patronage of the Rajas of Guler in the Kangra Valley. There they developed a style of painting which has a delicacy and a spirituality ...
Rait (Hindi: रैत) is a village in the Kangra district, Himachal Pradesh, India. Rait is both a gram panchayat , and the centre of the Rait development block of Kangra district. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is a historically and culturally significant part of the Kangra valley , hosting sites and institutions related to Raja Sansar Chand , the Kangra ...
Radha-Krishna theme, from the Gita Govinda in Pahari style, Garhwal sub-school. Pahari painting (lit. ' a painting from the mountainous regions, pahar meaning a mountain in Hindi ') is an umbrella term used for a form of Indian painting, done mostly in miniature forms, originating from the lower Himalayan hill kingdoms of North India, during the early 17th to mid 19th century, notably Basohli ...
Miniature painting of Raja Sansar Chand of Kangra State as a young boy during his childhood. Sansar Chand was a scion of the Katoch dynasty, which ruled Kangra for centuries until they were ousted by the Mughals in the early 17th century.
The 2001 India census [13] states that Kangra had a population of 9,154. Males constitute 50% of the population and females 50%. Kangra has an average literacy rate of 83%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 85%, and female literacy is 81%. In Kangra, 10% of the population is under 6 years of age.
S.L. Nagar, The temples of Himachal Pradesh. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Sinha, Chandreshwar Prasad (1998). Proceedings of the 6th Session of Indian Art History Congress, Shillong, November 1997. Indian Art History Congress. Singh, N.K. (2009). Coronation of Shiva: Rediscovering Masrur Temple. Har-Anand Publications. ISBN 978-81-241-1478-0.