It was in 2015, while researching for The Travelling Archive in East London exhibition that I came across two…

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It was in 2015, while researching for The Travelling Archive in East London exhibition that I came across two recordings of Arnold Bake from 1956 which were from Bengal—there were two more recordings from that trip, which I did not notice till 2018. To those I have dedicated another sub-chapter.

Place

DhakaLocation is approximate — known to district level.

Date

Date unknown

Collection

The Travelling Archive

Persistent ID

BDMA-R-000446

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• Chitralekha Chaudhury listens to her song, ‘Amala dhabala paale legechhe’, and she begins by talking about how…

  Dhaka

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  14:32
• Chitralekha tells us the story of how her mother was married, how Chitranibha’s in-laws recognised her…

  Dhaka

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  02:34
• This photograph is from E. O. Hoppe’s book, Santiniketan; it was on the cover of the book.

  Dhaka

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  04:45
• Chitralekha continues to tell her mother’s story.

  Dhaka

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  04:02
• Chitralekha talks about their family estate in Lamchor village in Noakhali, now in Bangladesh.

  Dhaka

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  06:55
• Chitralekha briefly mentions the fresco that her mother had painted in her uncle’s house in Dhaka.

  Dhaka

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  05:38