Exhibition "Infinitely India" highlights Glory of Kapurthala’s Heritage at Albert Kahn Museum, Paris France

Auto chromes and films reveal the symbolic opposition between the two princely states of Punjab and Rajasthan. On the one hand, enlightened and Francophile, maharajah of Kapurthala, on the other obstruction passive prince Udaipur face the British. In watermark on sees warning signs of changeover of India worked on the ideas of Independence. Among the portraits of Indian personalities invited at Albert Kahn, the poet Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) recalled that at Boulogne, the Nobel Prize for literature met the elite of the world sharing the same values based on "knowledge of the another instrument of peace in the world. "

The Exhibition got tremendous response from Public and highlighted Kapurthala’s rich heritage on International Front. The exhibition highlights only Two Princely States Kapurthala and Udaipur.

The photographs displayed show the marvelous grandeur of the Kapurthala dynasty including the Maharaja on a city tour sitting on an elephant, the Maharaja sitting with the Viceroy in the Kapurthala Palace, family functions of the Maharaja and famous buildings of Kapurthala including Nihal Palace, Moorish Mosque etc.

One of the photographs displayed in the exhibition depicts the ceremony of ‘Tula Daan', in which the king can be seen donating gold equivalent to his weight on his 50th birth anniversary celebration.

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The exhibition has drawn a lot of appreciation by many royal visitors of France as well as representatives of the royal family of Kapurthala.

 A one-hour video showing the history of Kapurthala and other beautiful scenes of India from 1913-27 is also being shown in the exhibition.

Curator Sophie Couetoux's Experience on Exhibition: It was really exciting to choose the images to be presented in the exhibition, according to their aesthetic but also historic interest. After the images were selected and sometimes associated together, depending on their possible analogies, we had to think about their distribution in the exhibition gallery. 

 

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