Dr. Kavita Singh

Dr. Kavita Singh

Small Study and Research Grant (UK)
1993
Art History Painting Folk and tribal studies Music / dance / performance West Bengal

For photographs of Bengali scroll paintings from British collections.

Senior Research Fellow, Punjab University, Chandigarh in 2000

Now, Associate Professor of Art History at the School of Arts and Aesthetics of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) New Delhi.

I received the grant during the course of my PhD on the picture story-telling traditions in Bengal and Rajasthan. These are traditions in which itinerant storytellers use scroll paintings to illustrate their storytelling performances. The sterling grant enabled me to order slides of the wonderful scroll paintings, particualrly from the J C French collection  in the V&A and British Museum. They were extremely useful, as these paintings are among four or five surviving examples of a superb, lost tradition.