Souvenir watercolors like this one were sold to pilgrims arriving at the Kalighat Temple in Calcutta during the 19th century, where the goddess Kali is revered as the mother of all the Universe. She is depicted with a third eye and protruding tongue. In her left hands she holds a scimitar and severed head, representing divine knowledge and the human ego, respectively. As the British set up schools to impart European style academic training to local artists, Kalighat painting blossomed into a distinct school of Indian art, placing western techniques at the service of eastern themes and motifs.

(Image by the Wellcome Library, London (CC BY 4.0).)    

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