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Maid Bringing a Hookah to a Lady, 1800s. Creator: Unknown

Maid Bringing a Hookah to a Lady, 1800s. Creator: Unknown


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Maid Bringing a Hookah to a Lady, 1800s. Creator: Unknown

Maid Bringing a Hookah to a Lady, 1800s. Kalighat paintings reflect the time and context in which they were created. Kalighat painters used their medium to offer penetrating and insightful critiques of British-influenced Indians as well as the British themselves through satires and caricatures. Newly rich Bengali native Indian clerks (babus) aspired to dress and behave like their British masters, and Kalighat painters taunted them for this. The maid, dressed in green, holds a hookah in her right hand. The lady in red is likely a fashionable high society concubine or prostitute known and depicted at this time as hookah-smoking, makeup-wearing, paan- (betel leaf with areca nut and lime paste) chewing hussies. The wealth created by the East India Company made it possible for Bengali babu dandies to have concubines and pay for prostitutes

Media ID 19636985

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Black Ink Calcutta Kalighat Painting


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