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These watercolours by Cyrus Jhabvala, as well as the pencil drawings which preceded them in his previous book, Delhi - Stones and Streets, grew out of his pleasure in documenting the ruins of the successive Delhi before they were entirely swallowed up in the vast metropolis that is modern New Delhi. This latest capital of India is spreading around, rolling over, and finally burying every last trace of all the older capitals, including the most recent ones of the ...
Abanindranath Tagore (1871-1951) is a singular figure in Modern Indian Art. Having arrived on the Indian art scene with the first wave of nationalism, he was seen as father figure of nationalist art and modernism. Along with E B Havell, Coomaraswamy, Sister Nivedita and other nationalists he brought an attitudinal change in the Indian response to traditional art. But his true contribution went beyond these. Trained under European artists initially, realism ...