Making Kantha, Making Home

"Ghosh's monograph elevates kantha as a living tradition that enables women to express their own agency. Her treatise deliberately deviates from the 19th century intellectual engagement with kantha by art curators by going beyond the surface-level of the kantha as a decorative piece of cloth and speculates the intentions of the women behind these handiworks."—International Examiner

"Ghosh has crafted a heartwarming and sophisticated understanding of how home and kantha are inextricably tied to Bengali culture, connecting kantha makers, users and researchers across time and space."—Textiles Asia

"A carefully crafted, well-written, insightful, and scholarly book that offers its readers intimate engagements with the material and social worlds of Bengali kantha."—Rebecca M. Brown, author of Displaying Time: The Many Temporalities of the Festival of India

"Ghosh's approach, really for the first time, takes kantha far beyond their standard treatment. The book bypasses old and increasingly outmoded distinctions between art and craft/folk art, blending art historical and ethnographic approaches."—Susan Bean, author of Midnight to the Boom: Painting in India after Independence