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Mithila culture is essentially a culture of the Gangetic plain and hindu caste structure is strictly upheld . Most people are subsitence farmer but landholding are usually very small and many families live on the edge of starvtion.
Most Mithila people live in small village , usually with no more the around 100 households. House walls are made from bamboo or Elephant grass plastered with the mixture of cow dung and mud The roofs are thatched Sometime tiled
Mihtila womens are raised with the expectation that they will be workers in their husband's home and are frequently married as children. As a part of their culture and religious tradition , the women paint striking murals on the External walls of their homes. Inside, pottery,stroge containers and Internal pillars also carry designs.
Different castes and different region have developed distinctive styles and symbols, which are passed down from mother to daughter traditionally ,painting and decoration is not undertaken purely to create and aesthetic result, nor is it purely cathartic or expressive the act of painting as a part of some ritual and often derive from Hindu mythology and can use complex symbols married mandala ,abstract figures, Peacocks, pregnant elephants and fish, Women also act their daily life works like cooking their foods, working at kitchen graden and rice field midwife helping to get baby, carrying water, feeding their cattle. Working in granding and ricedehask. Wedding paintings that are presented to the groom as part of the build-up to an arranged marriage.
Mithila paintings from madubani in Bihar India have been discovered by the International art world. Little Interest has been taken in the art produced on Nepali's side of the border.
This changed with the foundation of the Janakpur women's Development Center in1989 which had the dual aim of promoting traditional mithila painting skills and empowering the women painters. Also this changed around Janakpur and Terai small group of in village promiting traditional art Incomegenerating for their family supporting. This use in painting Nature color prepared from Kusuma and Patasa flowers, bell leaves, turmeric and used wo kinds of countary brushes, a bamboo twin for details and a Pihua for large washes. No peliminary sketching or corrections is required is the art is simpaly pure testhetics. The project includes women of divers castes and backgrounds and art that is created variety: wedding painting, pregnant elephant,goods and abstract tattoo designs are just some of the subjects. The women are also producing Ceremics, Papier-mache, Patchwork Tapestry, cotton-screen printers and woven wall hangings.

Genration of Arts

Centuries old tradition lives in the works of the THARU MITHILA WOMEN of Dhananger. 80% proceds goes directly to the womens Co-operative for maintan an age -old tradition and attain SELF SUFFIENCY Beautiful works created.