Place · painted rock shelter · India
Baijan Pat wall paintings
Wall paintings of about the fourteenth or fifteenth century in the Baijan Pat hills, about 110 km from Surajpur.
- Date
- 14th-15th century CE
- Periods
- Islamic Age and Bhakti Traditions
- Function
- Archaeology & heritage
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 23.541, 82.782 (approximate)
Worth knowing
Painting of this date is late for the medium: it belongs not to prehistory but to a continuing practice of painting rock that lasted into the sultanate centuries.
About the place
Pin as supplied, 28 km from Surajpur, while the division's page puts Baijan Pat 110 km away. The painted hills are not settled here.
Connections (1)
- AnalogueJanakpur rock paintings — Ara, Bhanwarkhoh and Tilauli
The Baijan Pat paintings are dated to the fourteenth or fifteenth century and the Janakpur shelters far earlier. Set side by side they make the point that painting rock in this country was not a prehistoric episode but a practice that continued into the sultanate centuries.
Sources
Commissioner, Surguja Division (division-surguja.cg.gov.in), tourist-destination pages, 2026; coordinates supplied by the editor
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