Framing Caste

Framing Caste

Framing Caste

Kolkata

Framing Caste

May 30, 2025,
7.00pm - 8.30pm

The Alipore Museum

A talk by historian Tanika Sarkar unpacking the importance of caste documentation and visualisation in the early colonial period followed by a discussion with art historian and curator Giles Tillotson, on Solvyns’ ambitious project of representing the people and practices of Bengal.

This event is a part of DAG’s exhibition ‘People of Bengal: Coloured Etchings by F. Baltazard Solvyns’, presented in collaboration with the Alipore Museum.