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This piece is called "Number 15." It was shown in the Beyond Basketry 2008 show at Dairy Barn in Athens, OH and in the full color catalog of the same name.
Zamindar Family of Teota
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Zamindar Family of Teota' was one of the large landholders based in Teota of manikganj district. Founded by one Panchanan Chaudhuri, born (c. 1740) into the Dasgupta family of Shaitghar-Teota in western Manikganj, the 'Sankars' (the family middle name) were a relatively progressive, enlightened and unostentatious zamindar family. A number of its members made notable contributions to public life at all Bengal level.
The Teota zamindari comprised a number of estates spread out in the districts of Dhaka, Faridpur and Pabna, and Dinajpur along with some small properties in Rangpur and Burdwan. In 1914, the Dinajpur properties alone were valued at over Rs 11 lakhs. The estate paid over Rs. 60,000 in annual government revenue, and was managed by educated and trained officials. It would also appear that this estate was comparatively generous towards its employees ' among other things, it paid a 'dearness allowance', and took care of the medical expenses and 'living costs' of its staff. The head office/ manager's office was at Teota, and the estate was broadly divided into a few circles, each having a number of kachharis under it. The Teota zamindari remained undivided for almost a hundred and fifty years. By 1920, however, it had been amicably partitioned into the eight anna Teota Joy Sankar Estate, and other smaller shares. The zamindari ended with the abolition of zamindari system, and the acquisition of the estates by the government, under the provisions of the EAST BENGAL STATE ACQUISITION AND TENANCY ACT of 1950.
Panchanan Chaudhuri, the founder of the family, began his 'career' away from home, in Dinajpur. His earliest investments, it seems, had been in the tobacco trade, in which he flourished. With the profits earned from his lucrative business, he soon started to invest in land when a land market was created under the operation of the Permanent Settlement. He acquired his earliest properties in the Dinajpur region. Some time later, he returned to his ancestral village, and established himself as the first zamindar of Teota. A devout vaisnab, it was also during his time that 'Sridhar' came to be the 'family-god', Panchanan being the first 'sebaiyat'. He lived till ninety-three, and saw in his own lifetime the zamindari maturing into one of the largest in Eastern Bengal.
Very little is known about Panchanan Chaudhuri's only son, Kali Sankar, who died very young, in his early thirties, but left behind two sons ' Joy Sankar and Tarini Sankar (born, 1800s-1810s). Both of them were brought up to be 'traditional' aristocrats (of the 'Nawabi Bengal' mould), the younger Tarini Sankar having even been sent to Murshidabad for his education. However, he did not have a long life, and died in his thirties, and was survived by Shyama Sankar (later RAJA SHYAMA SANKAR RAY BAHADUR of Teota) and Pran Sankar.
Joy Sankar considerably augmented the inherited properties. He undertook such welfare activities as the digging of ponds and the construction of roads, besides generously maintaining the 'atithi-sala' (guest house) at Teota set up by his grandfather. He, however, decided to renounce his family and his worldly possessions, and left for Puri ' one of the best destinations for a practising vaisnab ' leaving his two minor sons (Parbati Sankar and Hara Sankar) under the care of their mother and grandmother. It was there that he died shortly afterwards (c 1860). His sons later built a 'dharamsala' in his memory at Gaya (in Bihar), and also made the necessary initial arrangements for a 'math' to be founded at the site of his cremation in Puri.
The next generation of the family saw a marked shift towards the metropolis. Although the (first) Calcutta residence of the family had been built at 50, Darmahutta Street (now Maharshi Debendra Road) in the Pathuriaghata area in the 1820s, it was only from the sixties that male members of the family began to live in the city for extended periods. The ladies of the family left the village much later, in the 1880s or 1890s, when a new, more sprawling residence was built at 44, European Asylum Lane. That apart, the family also had a number of residential houses elsewhere. The Teota rajbari in Benaras (there were two, in fact) have been immortalised by BIBHUTIBHUSHAN BANDYOPADHYAY's novel, and subsequently by the SATYAJIT RAY film, 'Aparajita'.
The eldest among the four cousins of this generation, Shyama Sankar Roy, was a noted philanthropist, an enterprising landlord who made numerous attempts at improvements and innovations in agriculture, and a Theosophist. He was conferred the personal title of 'Raja' in the 1877s. RAI PARBATI SANKAR CHAUDHURI was also an 'imaginative' zamindar. Among other things, he introduced the system of co-operative grain banks (dharmagola) within the zamindari, and was one of the founders of the INDIAN INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION. Hara Sankar Ray, who was a Presidency College graduate and had a degree in law, was an honourary magistrate (of Teota). The next generation saw yet another shift, with many of the cousins being sent to British universities for their first degrees and legal training at the Inns of Court, although only one of them, Dr Kumar Sankar Ray, turned out to be a 'professional' in later life. KS Ray, a non-practising barrister and a philanthropist, was prominently involved in Congress electoral politics and represented Bengal (along with a few others) at the Council of States in New Delhi in the 1930s and 40s. The best-known names in the generation were however: the politician, KIRON SANKAR ROY, and KUMUD SANKAR RAY (Dr KS Ray), the medical luminary and Swarajya-Congress leader.
The family seat was at Teota ' an expansive complex, close to the bank of Jamuna, comprising a maze of courtyards and buildings, the earliest ones dating from the early nineteenth century, and the most recent from the early 1900s. The remarkable Navaratna adjoining the rajbati, built in honour of the family god and used during the 'Dol' festival, is among the tallest and most elegant ones of its kind. The 'High/ Entrance School' in the village, called Teota Academy, founded by the Teota Zamindar Family in the 1880s was ' apart from the town school ' for a long time the only one in Manikganj sub-division, now a district. The school also had a 'boarding' for resident scholars, and its students used to stay at the 'Bahir-bari' of the Calcutta residence of the Sankars when appearing for the University matriculation and other examinations. Besides this, there was a 'pathsala' and a charitable dispensary maintained by the estate. Also, Teota was one of the very few places in the district having a sitting honorary magistrate and a 'bench'.
The big structures of the zamindar family still survive though abandoned and left uncared since 1957. These are now occupied by squatters. Structurally, the magnificent Teota buildings carry the spirit and technique of the blends of Mughal and European architecture. [R Roy]'
Number 31 by Jackson Pollock
MoMA - New York.
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Joe is a very important man at Coogee beach in Western Australia as he is a member of the surf life saving club. He and his team were getting their boat out when I went to the beach to swim.
He agreed to pose for my 100 strangers project. He is number 42. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
Quite some distance away but I just had to post this. Not sure how it's staying up there but it did all the time we were there, I have not stuck it on in Photoshop!
Many thanks to all who comment, fave or just enjoy looking, it's very much appreciated!
this sign gets filled with stickers and then someone will eventually steal it. it happened a couple times now.
Watkins Glen Weathertech IMSA weekend July 2016 Day 2. Classes include Porsche GT3 Cup, IMSA WeatherTech, Lamborghini Super Trofeo, IMSA Prototype Lites and the Continental Tire Sportscar Challenge.
Sahlen's Six hours at the Glen. Grand Am racing at Watkins Glen, June 2013. Daytona Prototypes, GT, GX, IMSA GT Cup, Continental Sports Car Challenge (ST, GS), and F2000.
I took this photo on the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. I saw this man and his son and I loved his visual look. They were visiting from San Antonio, and I had just spent a month there fro work. We spent a good ten minutes talking about the best places to eat there. 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
Hard to miss the address on this building, a colorful door draws the eyes of passing cars along Hythe Quay in Colchester, Essex in eastern England. This particular door is sometimes open and one can see potters and artists inside using a wheel to make clay pots, jars, and platters while the completed items dry outside on warm days
Pol Pot was born as Saloth Sar and called Brother Number One by the Khmer Rouge. He died in 1998 in the jungle where Khmer Rouge had withdrawn after the Vietnamese overthrown of power in Phnom Penh in 1979.
The man was never arrested or brought to justice.
This picture is part of my set Horrors of Khmer Rouge
Previously a branch of Lloyds Bank - which - we are reliably informed does all it's business "on line" now ... makes a good pub, though! You might discern the masonry above the door proudly depicting the black horse of Lloyds in 1677.
Accession Number: spa.1018.8.2
This item was collected at the 2013 March and Rally for Independence.
The second March and Rally for Scottish Independence was held on the 21st September 2013. Supporters of a yes vote in the 2014 referendum rallied in the High Street on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh for midday and then marched to Calton Hill via North Bridge and Princes Street. At Calton Hill they held a rally where they were addressed by speakers such as Alex Salmond, Nicola Sturgeon, Dennis Canavan, Alan Grogan, Blair Jenkins, Hardeep Singh Koli and Elaine C. Smith.
The Scottish Political Archive is housed at the University of Stirling. The archive is home to the oral interviews, personal papers and associated material from prominent Scottish politicians. For further information about the work of the archive please visit our website www.scottishpoliticalarchive.org.uk
Secret number nineteen:
I am secretly in love with Stephen Merchant. I have never been one for conventional good looks. Brad Pitt? Does nothing for me. George Clooney? I'll pass. Tall, lanky, googily-eyed freak? Yes please! I am a huge fan of the BBC version of The Office. Although Stephen Merchant was only in an episode or two, it was the behind the scenes footage that did it for me. He is so smart, and so funny, and I didn't stand a chance. It can't be explained. I am clutching onto my complete set of Extras. It was a birthday present to me, from me. If you are a fan, and you don't have the set, let me just tell you that you get both seasons, plus the extra special season finale, for only $26.49 from Amazon. Can I get a w00t w00t? Also, it was his birthday yesterday. I shouldn't know such things.
Arriva Rail North class 156 "Super Sprinter" number 156426 seen arriving at Arnside on the Cumbrian Coast with a train for Lancaster.
Accession Number: spa.2167.2
The Bus Party is a touring group of artists, listening across Scotland in the run up to the Referendum, and asking, “What kind of Scotland do we want?”
In 1997, William McIlvanney led a group of fellow artists on a bus tour round Scotland in the run up to the referendum on the Scottish Parliament. They were listening to local people’s views on the kind of Scotland they wanted to live in after the referendum, whether they were voting Yes or No. Now the bus is back, riding towards the referendum on September 18, touring from Wick to Wigtown, asking the same question, “What kind of Scotland do we want?”The spring leg of the new “Listening Lugs” tour will go from Stromness to Stirling between May 24 and 31, followed by a September tour in the week before Referendum Day.
The Bus Party welcomes civil comment on the kind of Scotland people want, whether voting Yes or No, or still Don’t Know, in the Referendum.
The Scottish Political Archive is housed at the University of Stirling. The archive is home to the oral interviews, personal papers and associated material from prominent Scottish politicians. For further information about the work of the archive please visit our website www.scottishpoliticalarchive.org.uk
Serial number: 4236
Test registration: C-FUOF
Engines 2 x PWC PW150A
N436QX 20/01/2009 Horizon Air
N436QX 11/10/2024 Jetcraft
Just back from a short break to North Wales, which included taking in a rather dull & wet day in Portmeirion. For those of you that are old enough to remember, the TV series 'The Prisoner', starring the late, great Patrick McGoohan, was filmed here. The mustard coloured 'round' building in the first image, is Number 6's house from the series, which now ironically serves as 'The Prisoner' shop! The second image shows Battery Square', and the rear of the house (the one with the open French doors).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmeirion
~I will endeavour to catch up on your excellent streams over the next few days!~