Madhubani Painting: As A Tool Of Women Empowerment

  Riju Yamini

Maithil society although being ‘Matri shakti’ oriented, where, more godsess in different form are traditionally worshipped as compared to “Pitri shakti”. However, culturally the male members were earning ones and female members were instrumental in handling in-house management and household works. The place of women in this society has been very respectful and important. However, exposure to the outside world for them remained a constraint mostly due to customs, traditions as well as a huge level of responsibility and hard work involved in daily household and family activities. At the same the, as far as the art, craft and tradition-cultural activity is concerned, these remained mostly confined in the safe hand of Maithil women. So was in the Mithila Pinting activities. Hence, when this art form started spreading in the world, the women folk associated with it also got benefited and women from even most interior and backward areas without much communication and exposure got recognized. This further was instrumental in innovation and skill enhancement in this however common art style. And the resultant was even better skillful art work and very fast growing opportunity and market penetration in art segment. So, Madhubani painting became a tool for empowerment of associated women (since, mostly women were involved) and vice-versa this art style got empowered with strengthening of it’s practitioners.

Keywords- Mithila Painting, women, recognition, empowerment

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR2004007
Page Number(s) - 27-28
Pubished in - Volume 8 | Issue 4 | October 2020
DOI (Digital Object Identifier) -   
Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Riju Yamini,   "Madhubani Painting: As A Tool Of Women Empowerment", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.8, Issue 4, pp.27-28, October 2020, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR2004007.pdf