Selected English-Language Bibliography

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Kantha: The Embroidered Quilts of Bengal from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection and the Stella Kramrisch Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Selected English-Language Bibliography

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Darielle Mason (Editor)

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Selected English-Language Bibliography

Ahmad, Perveen. The Aesthetics and Vocabulary of Nakshi Kantha: Bangladesh National Museum Collection. Dhaka: Bangladesh National Museum, 1997

Basak, Sila. Nakshi Kantha of Bengal. New Delhi: Gyan Publishing House, 2007 (English translation of Bengali version published in 2002)

———. Women’s Brata Rituals. New Delhi: Gyan Publishing House, 2006

Blum, Dilys. The Fine Art of Textiles: The Collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1997

Blurton, T. Richard, The Legendary Past: Bengali Myths. London: The British Museum, 2006

Bonaventura, Paul, and Beth Stockley, eds. Woven Air: The Kantha and Muslin Tradition of Bangladesh. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1988

Chakrabarti, Asis K. Kantha: The Traditional Art of the Women of Bengal. Calcutta: Arts India Publications, 2000

Chatterji, Tapanmohan. Alpona: Ritual Decoration in Bengal. Calcutta: Orient Longmans Ltd., 1948

Chen, Martha Alter. “Kantha and Jamdani: Revival in Bangladesh.” India International Quarterly n, no. 4 (December 1984)

Crafts Council of West Bengal. Mahamaya: The Crafts and Craftsmen of Eastern India. Calcutta: The Crafts Council of West Bengal in conjunction with the Port of History Museum, Philadelphia, 1986

Crill, Rosemary. Indian Embroidery. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1999

———, ed. Textiles from India: The Global Trade: Papers Presented at a Conference on the Indian Textile Trade, Kolkata, 12–14 October 2003. Kolkata: Seagull Books, 2006

Das, Sukla. Fabric Art: Heritage of India. New Delhi: Abhinav Books, 1992

Dhamija, Jasleen, ed. Asian Embroidery. New Delhi: Crafts Council of India / Abhinav Publications, 2004

Dutt, Gurusaday. “The Art of the Kāńthā.” Modern Review, October 1939

———. Catalogue of Folk Arts. Calcutta: Indian Society of Oriental Art, 1932

———. Folk Arts and Crafts of Bengal: The Collected Papers. Calcutta: Seagull Books, 1990

Ganguli, Kalyan Kumar. “Kantha—the Enchanted Wrap.” Indian Folk Lore 1, no. 2 (1958), p. 5

Ghosh, Pika. Temple to Love: Architecture and Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Bengal. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005

Ghuznavi, Ruby. “The Tradition of Kantha and Contemporary Trends.” In Asian Embroidery, ed. Jasleen Dhamija, pp. 131–42. New Delhi: Crafts Council of India / Abhinav Publications, 2004

Gurusaday Museum. Album of Art Treasure: Kantha (Series One). Kolkata: Gurusaday Museum / Gurusaday Dutt Folk Art Society, 1995

———. Album of Art Treasure: Kantha (Series Two). Kolkata: Gurusaday Museum / Gurusaday Dutt Folk Art Society, 2008

Hacker, Katherine F. “Displaying Tribal Imagery: Known and Unknown India.” Museum Anthropology 23, no. 3 (2000), pp. 5–25

Haque, Enamul, ed. An Anthology on Crafts of Bangladesh. Dhaka: National Crafts Council of Bangladesh, 1987

———, ed. Textile Traditions of Bangladesh. Dhaka: National Crafts Council of Bangladesh, 2006

Irwin, John. “Indo-Portuguese Embroideries of Bengal. “Journal of the Royal India, Pakistan and Ceylon Society 26, no. 2 (1956), pp. 65–73

Irwin, John, and Margaret Hall. Indian Embroideries. Ahmedabad: Calico Museum of Textiles, 1973

Jain, Jyotindra. Kalighat Painting: Images from a Changing World. Ahmedabad: Mapin Publishing, 1999

Jasimuddin. Nakshi Kanthar Math (1929). Translated into English by E. M. Milford as The Field of the Embroidered Quilt: A Tale of Two Indian Villages. Calcutta: Oxford University Press, 1939

Jayakar, Pupil, and John Irwin. Textiles and Ornaments of India. Edited and with a foreword by Monroe Wheeler. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1956

Kramrisch, Stella. “Kanthā.” Journal of the Indian Society of Oriental Art 7 (1939), pp. 141–67 (reprinted in this volume)

———. “Kanthas of Bengal.” Marg 3, no. 2 (1949), pp. 18–29, 37

———. Unknown India: Ritual Art in Trihe and Village. Exhibition catalogue. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1968. (Kantha section reprinted with no or slight variations in the following: Exploring India’s Sacred Art: Selected Writings of Stella Kramrisch. Edited by Barbara Stoler Miller. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983. Aditi: The Living Arts of India. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985. Handwoven Fabrics of India. Edited by Jasleen Dhamija and Jyotindra Jain. Ahmedabad: Mapin Publishing Ltd., 1989)

Meister, Michael W., ed. Cooking for the Gods: The Art of Home Ritual in Bengal. Newark, NJ: The Newark Museum; Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995

Mode, Heinz, and Subodh Chandra. Indian Folk Art. Bombay: Taraporevala, 1985

Mookerjee, Ajit. Folk Art of Bengal. Calcutta: University of Calcutta, 1939; rev. ed., 1946

Paul, Ashit, ed. Woodcut Prints of Nineteenth Century Calcutta. Calcutta: Seagull Books, 1983

Roy, Gopen. “Nakshi Kantha.” Journal of the Indian Society of Oriental Art, n.s. 17 (1989), n.p.

Sen, Dineshchandra. The Folk Literature of Bengal. Calcutta: University of Calcutta, 1920

Singh, Martand, and Rta Kapur Chishti, eds. Saris of India, vol. 2, Bihar and West Bengal. New Delhi: Wiley Eastern Ltd. / National Institute of Fashion Technology / Amr Vastra Kosh, 1995

Skelton, Robert, and Mark Francis, eds. Arts of Bengal: The Heritage of Bangladesh and Eastern India. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1979

Zaman, Niaz. The Art of Kantha Embroidery. Dhaka: Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, 1981. 2d rev. ed., Dhaka: The University Press Ltd., 1993

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