With 2,000 entries ranging from the prehistoric cave paintings to contemporary art, researchers hope the encyclopedia can make the subcontinent's cultural heritage more widely accessible.
Funded by Poddar's Museum of Art & Photography , which opens later this year in the southern city of Bengaluru, the open-access resource was created by a group of around 20 researchers and editors. Content was internally peer-reviewed and overseen by a panel of expert scholars and writers.
The encyclopedia spotlights a wide range of regional art forms, such as the Pithora painting style used by the Bhil people and artists like Bhuri Bai."A lot of the scholarship is in ridiculously verbose jargon," he said in a phone interview, calling the encyclopedia"a response to that kind of writing, which people find quite alienating.
Religious and mythological art features widely, like this miniature painting illustrating a scene from the "Gita Govinda."The initial entries were curated to be representative of the subcontinent's different religious, linguistic and local traditions, while featuring a broadly equal number of male and female artists.
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