Bijoya

Annada Prasad Bagchi was a master oil painter and portraitist in nineteenth-century Calcutta, who co-founded the Calcutta Art Studio in 1878. This print shows the end of the Durga puja festivities with Durga leaving her maternal home after a brief stay, about to return to Kailash. While the women of the family console the goddess, Shiva waits for her with baby Ganesha in his arms. This print humanises the deity and the events that occur as part of the Bijoya Sammelan on Doshomi before the Durga idol is immersed in the Hooghly river.