4. "The Hungry Stones," Tagore ~ Gallery Exhibit

This photo represents the many extensive and dark passageways in the palace in which secret histories and traumas are hidden. This highlights the central theme of layered identities within our project. This photo also represents Mughal architecture in India.

"I cannot now say where. What endless dark and narrow passages, what long corridors, what silent and solemn audience-chambers and close secret cells I crossed!" (Tagore, Rabindranath, (…

This is an image of Calcutta, the train station in Calcutta is where the first layer of dialogue is introduced between the framing narrator and the framed narrator.

Calcutta -1900.Jpg - Wikimedia Commons.” Wikimedia.org, 2022, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Calcutta_-1900.jpg. Reproduced in accordance with the Doctrine of Fair Use, as per 17 USC 107.

This is an image of Emperor Mahmud Shah II. This is the Emperor who owned the palace that the framed narrator stays in within the story.

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“About 250 years ago the Emperor Mahmud Shah II had built this lonely palace for his pleasure and luxury. In his days jets of rose-water spurted from its fountains, and on the cold marble floors of its spray-cooled rooms young Persian damsels would sit.” (Tagore, Rabindranath, (The Hungry Stones)  …

Zafar Mahal, the summer palace of the last Mughal Emperor.

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This map shows regions where the outdated term "Mohamedan" would be used, or rather Muslim countries. These are highlighted in light grey.

“ From his dress and bearing we took him at first for an up-country Mahomedan, but we were puzzled as we heard him talk" (Tagore, Rabindranath, (The Hungry Stones) …