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Bakhle, Janaki. "6. A Legend in His Own Time: Savarkar and His Hagiography". Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024, pp. 360-411. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691251486-008

Bakhle, J. (2024). 6. A Legend in His Own Time: Savarkar and His Hagiography. In Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva (pp. 360-411). Princeton: Princeton University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691251486-008

Bakhle, J. 2024. 6. A Legend in His Own Time: Savarkar and His Hagiography. Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva. Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 360-411. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691251486-008

Bakhle, Janaki. "6. A Legend in His Own Time: Savarkar and His Hagiography" In Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva, 360-411. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691251486-008

Bakhle J. 6. A Legend in His Own Time: Savarkar and His Hagiography. In: Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva. Princeton: Princeton University Press; 2024. p.360-411. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691251486-008

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A visit to the museum of Indian sculptor Vinayak Pandurang Karmarkar can be a surreal experience. Located in a sleepy, narrow lane of Alibag, a coastal town south of Mumbai, this permanent museum showcases sculptures of famous and common people, in different moods and garbs. The first floor of Karmarkar’s house has been converted into the museum, called Karmarkar Shilpalaya. The property was deserted, except for an old caretaker woman who led us into the museum.

The property’s lawns greeted us with some of Karmarkar’s works draped in plastic sheets because of the heavy monsoon. As we climbed up the stairs, we walked into a corridor lined with more than a dozen sculptures. The corridor led to a large, sunny hall housing the full collection. We spotted Mahatma Gandhi, Lokmanya Tilak, PC Ray, CR Das, Chatrapati Shivaji, and many members of the Karmarkar’s clan, including the artist’s “self-sculpture”.

The museum was shrouded in stillness, accentuated by the serenity of Alibag, a popular weekend getaway for Mumbai’s residents. Despite the ambient stillness, the sculptures evoked a living quality, and perhaps that is where lies Karmarkar’s mastery over the form of sculpture.

In 1964, the Alibag-born artist received the Padma Shri, one of India’s highest civilian honours awarded by the central government. The award citation recognised him as one of India’s outstanding sculptors, whose repertoire includes a 14-feet high bronze statue of Shivaji in Pune.

A student of the Bombay School of Art and the Royal Academy of Art in London, Karmarkar toured Europe to study ancient and modern Western art, the citation added. His sculptures have been acquired by private collectors in England, Germany and the U.S. He died in 1967.

Despite being a well-known artist, there are only a handful of blogs about his art. A Wikipedia entry has a brief bio-data, there are no news articles either. Like its obscure location, the museum has been reduced to a tou

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