Jangarh Singh Shyam was a pioneering contemporary Indian artist credited with being the creator of a new school of Indian art called Jangarh Kalam. His work has been exhibited widely the world over in
Jangarh Singh Shyam at work at Bharat Bhavan
Patangarh village, Mandla district, Madhya Pradesh
The Gondi or Gond people, who refer to themselves as "Kōītōr", are an ethnolinguistic group in India. Their native language, Gondi, belongs to the Dravidian family. They are spread over the states of
Jangarh Singh Shyam
…Vidhan Bhavan, and the dome of Bhopal's Bharat Bhavan—one of the most prestigious museums of tribal and contemporary Indian art. He was among the first Gond artists to use paper and canvas for his paintings, thereby inaugurating what is now known as Jangarh Kalam. Jangarh was born into a Pardhan Gond family…
Gondi women in Umaria district, India
Komaram Bheem statue at the Kumuram Bheem Tribal Museum in Jodeghat
1928 painting of a Gond woman by M. V. Dhurandhar