Ep 244: The Multitudes of Our Maharajahs
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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Have We Lost Something?
Hindis was constructed in the late nineteenth century to serve, as ap, some kind of common, unifying language. It was part of that homogenizing traind you know. A lot of subaltern traditions of art have been lost because he also elevated a brahminical reading of things. Even if in his paintings, it's always the maid or the assura women who are dark skinned and everybody else is fair.
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