Sujet
Jailer Receiving the Mahant of Tarakeshwar in Prison, 1800s. Creator: Unknown.
Légende
Jailer Receiving the Mahant of Tarakeshwar in Prison, 1800s. The Tarakeshwar murder case of 1873 was a public scandal in Calcutta. It concerned an affair between Elokeshi, a young wife, and the chief priest of the Shiva temple at Tarakeshwar. Having learned about the affair, her jealous husband cut Elokeshi?s throat with a fish knife on May 27, 1873. In the subsequent trial, the husband, Banerji, was sentenced to life imprisonment and the priest was fined and imprisoned for three years. Several Bengali plays and Kalighat images were inspired by this affair and depicted events that did not actually occur but were imagined by the artist. Here the adulterer, the Mahant (head priest), is depicted roped to an Indian jailer and presented to an English (or Anglo-Indian) warden. The warden sits in a black chair, wearing an English top hat and holding in his right hand the Mahant?s warrant of commitment for adultery. Both the warden and jailer wear British-styled buckled shoes.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Notre référence
HRM19F88_326
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Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
78,6Mo (7,5Mo) / 36,2cm x 54,3cm / 4279 x 6419 (300dpi)