Raghurajpur
Raghurajpur is a heritage crafts village in
In 2000, after a two-year research and documentation project by
It also has the distinction of being the only place where the traditional decoration called Patas is made, used under the throne of Lord
Government and other stakeholders use online campaigns to promote Pattachitra art of Raghurajpur village.[8]
Overview
Situated amidst groves of coconut, palm, mango and jack fruit, the main village has two streets with over 120 houses, most decorated with mural paintings, where the painters reside and practice their pattachitra craft, besides many other that practices throughout the village, including traditional masks, stone idols, papier mache, sculptures, wooden toys.
Around, 2000 it was developed as a heritage village by
Today it is also the venue of the annual Basant Utsav – Parampara Raghurajpur (Spring Festival), which was first organised in 1993 under the aegis of State Tourism Department and Eastern Zonal Cultural Centre, Kolkata, held in the month of February/March and an important tourist draw.[12]
Pattachitra
The
Location
It is situated 14 km away from Hindu pilgrimage town of Puri, on the southern banks of river Bhargabi (Bhargavi). Visitors from Puri take the Bhubaneswar road, near Chandanpur, on NH-316, and upon reaching the Chandanpur Bazaar, they can take a right turn to reach Raghurajpur. The village is then around 1.5 km from Chandanpur.[1][14]
This village also finds mention in The Jengaburu Curse series of SonyLIV.
Notes
- ^ a b c Bindloss, p. 648
- ^ a b "A visitors' delight". Frontline. Vol. 19, no. 24. 6 December 2002. Archived from the original on 6 June 2011.
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- ^ Datta, Rangan (18 April 2022). "Raghurajpur: The Odisha village of patachitra painters". The Telegraph. My Kolkata. Retrieved 29 August 2023.
- ^ "HERITAGE: Mural village". Frontline. Vol. 25, no. 16. 15 August 2008. Archived from the original on 6 June 2011.
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- CNN-IBN. 15 July 2007. Archived from the originalon 6 October 2012. Retrieved 27 March 2010.
- ^ "A Twitter campaign lifts Pattachitra artists out of crisis in Odisha". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
- ^ Rajhurajpur mapsofindia.
- ^ INTACH to develop village in Ganjam district The Hindu, 11 October 2007.
- ^ Heritage Guide training UNESCO, Bangkok.Feb 2007. p. 6-5
- ^ "Raghurajpur gears up for Vasant Utsav". The Hindu. 10 March 2007. Archived from the original on 12 March 2007.
- The Tribune. 14 April 2002.
- ^ Raghurajpur wikimapia.
References
- Bindloss, Joe; Sarina Singh (2007). "Southeastern Orissa- Rajhurajpur". India. Lonely Planet. p. 648. ISBN 978-1-74104-308-2.
- Bundgaard, Helle (1999). "3. A Crafts Village and its Making". Indian art worlds in contention: local, regional and national discourses on Odishan patta paintings. Routledge. ISBN 0-7007-0986-X.
- Rajhurajpur on YouTube
External links
- Raghurajpur Crafts village Orissa Review, Government of Orissa, November 2004.
- Raghurajpur Crafts village Rural tourism, Govt. of India
- Myths on a cloth at Mint