Indian fighter kites
This is a long talk about Indian fighter kites (and much else), originally for an audience with an interest in Indian culture and some background knowledge. The audio and the slideshow text is in Hungarian, but I've added subtitles in English.
Contents
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0:02 - Opening
0:37 - How does an Indologist mix with kites?
4:19 - The origins of kite flying
11:49 - Kites in Europe
15:58 - The history of Indian kites
24:03 - What are Indian kites like?
32:27 - Speculation about the origin of Indian kites
36:58 - When and where are kites flown in India?
40:53 - Kite battles
48:40 - How are Indian kites made?
58:33 - Problems in the Indian kite scene
Credits
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All artwork and other content not explicitly listed below is my own.
images
Malcolm Goodman „Kiteman”
https://www.kiteman.co.uk/
https://www.flickr.com/people/kitemus...
Kevin Standage
https://kevinstandagephotography.word...
Wolfgang Bieck barlangrajzos fotói
https://www.taritravelindonesia.com/t...
British Museum Online Collection
© The Trustees of the British Museum, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Asset Numbers 244576001, 385484001, 287973001, 1613768564, 1336058001, 576517001, 1414343001, 219039001
Cleveland Museum of Art (CC0)
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1973...
Brooklyn Museum (Public Domain)
https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/openco...
Metropolitan Museum of Art (CC0 / Public Domain)
Entries 54541, 44590, 1977.5, 288528
Nina Paley (CC0)
kiteplans.org
https://www.kiteplans.org/planos/hata...
PETA India
https://secure.petaindia.com/page/84651
Wikimedia Commons
Muminbd, CC BY-SA 3.0
Bhavishya Goel, CC BY 2.0
Haseeb Ahmad Farooqi, CC BY-SA 4.0
Tropenmuseum, CC BY-SA 3.0
Radu Oltean, CC BY-SA 3.0
Enciclopedia Dacica, CC BY-SA 3.0
Asfand Yar68, CC BY-SA 4.0
Rafatalam100, CC BY-SA 4.0
Ray Manju, CC BY-SA 3.0
Meena Kadri/Meanest Indian, CC BY 2.0
Faiyaz Hawawala, CC BY-SA 3.0
बृहस्पति, CC BY-SA 3.0
ThKraft, CC SA 2.5
Paavans, CC BY-SA 3.0
Kkthemonk, CC BY-SA 4.0
Md.altaf.rahman, CC BY-SA 3.0
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, CC BY-SA 2.0
D.W. Fisher-Freberg, CC BY-SA 3.0
vishal dutta photo’s, CC BY 2.0
Video: Kite Lover, / @kitelover (CC BY)
literature
Ajay Prakash. 2003. Kites in India. Nomad Heritage Trust. https://web.archive.org/web/201708311....
Anonymous. 2002. ‘Just How Old Is This Kite Cave Painting?’ Drachen Foundation Journal, 2002.
Bieck, Mong Hie and Wolfgang Bieck. 2002. Der erste Drachenflieger. https://web.archive.org/web/202010301...
Desai, Nikita. 2010. A Different Freedom: Kite Flying in Western India; Culture and Tradition. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Gode, Parshuram Krishna. 1956. ‘Some Further Notes on the History of Kite-Flying in India and Outside—Between B. C. 500 and A. D. 1956’. Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute 37 (1/4): 111–19.
———. 1957. ‘Some Notes on the History of the Kite in India and Outside’. Indian Linguistics 17 (Taraporewala Memorial Volume): 90–97.
Gomberg, David. 1992. The Fighter Kite Book!: A Complete Flight Manual for Single Line Maneuverable Kites. Gomberg Kite Productions International.
Hart, Clive. 1982. Kites, an Historical Survey. New York: Paul P. Appel.
Heydemann, H. 1867. ‘IV. Drachenspiel’. Archäologische Zeitung 25 (228): 125.
Pelham, David. 2000. Kites. New York: Overlook Press.
Polo, Marco. 1984. Marco Polo utazásai. Szerk. Sellő Edit. Ford. Vajda Endre. Budapest: Gondolat.
Raghavan, V. 1979. Festivals, Sports and Pastimes of India. B. J. Institute of Learning and Research: Ahmedabad.
Streeter, Tal. 1996. A Kite Journey Through India. New York: Weatherhill.
music:
J. S. Bach, D-moll toccata és fúga
Kevin MacLeod
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
CC-BY 3.0