The practice of carrying patas, or scroll-paintings, and performing patua across villages on auspicious occasions was widespread in eastern India, particularly in Midnapore, Murshidabad, Birbhum and Purulia districts of Bengal.
What made him ‘Akbar the Great’ was not the might of his armies alone, but the political architecture he built to sustain power over a subcontinent teeming with diversity.
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