Raja Ravi Varma, often regarded as the ‘Father of Modern Indian Art’, laid the foundation to make art accessible to the common man. With the use of European art techniques, Varma became the ...

The Government College of Art in Calcutta was ‘established by a benevolent government for the purpose of revealing to the Indians the superiority of European art’, in the second half of the 19th ...

Nawab Munir al-Mulk, Aristu Jah, Prime Minister (Diwan) of Hyderabad, seated on a terrace with an attendant waving a flywhisk, receiving Rajah Chandu Lal Bahadur, a Minister, and Chandu Lal's son, ...