Join us for this Meade Lecture and discover how devotional prints transformed art, faith, and daily life in colonial India.

Explore a transformative yet often overlooked chapter in South Asian art history: the explosion of popular devotional art through lithographic printing in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Calcutta (now Kolkata). These vibrant and accessible mass-produced images brought the divine into everyday life, offering devotees new ways to engage with their gods, and reshaping spiritual experiences in colonial India.

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Image Credit: "Ganesha" (detail), printed by Chore Bagan Art Studio, published by Amar Nath Shaha, about 1895-1900. Lithograph. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Marshall H. Gould Fund, 2017.3947.