HISTORY Originally introduced in the rural villages of Bengal, the art of making katha expanded throughout South Asia. It was very common practice in a lot of household, however in the early 19th century this art form disappeared for some time before being revived in the 1940’s by the daughter-in-law of the famous Bengali poet and Nobel Laureate, Rabindranath Tagore. The revival of katha was disrupted again during the partition of India in 1947 and the ensuing conflict between India and what was then Eastern Pakistan (now Bangladesh). Finally since the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971, katha has experienced a re-birth of its own as a highly valued and much desired art-craft form in Bangladesh.
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