CHERIYAL PAINTING ( CIVICS) (PAIN)

The scroll paintings display some influence of the Nayaka period paintings,
which are an extension of the Vijayanagara style of painting. While the
wealthy classes brought the scroll for attractiveness, for the illiterate it was a
great medium of entertainment and education.

While every state has a scroll tradition of its own, Telangana scroll paintings
carry the depiction of heroic legends about particular communities.

Different communities have their own band of storytellers – in the Goud

community of toddy tappers, they are called Gouda Shetty; those of the
Chakali, or washermen, are called Chakalipatamvaru or Pattamollu;
Kakipadagallolu for Muttarasi, the fruit pickers; Padmasalis, the community of
weavers; and so on.