The Maurya empire, ruled by the Mauryan dynasty, was the largest and most powerful political and military empire of ancient India. Krishen Khanna speaks of his love of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, and his benign but not uncritical account of humanity, as encountered around 1400. In a similar way, the mural is not exactly contemporary life, but a fusion of the Mauryan past with the present of the 1980s, without any obvious parading of modern achievements such as ...
Chola Migrations, reproduces, in an accordion format, the large 6.75 feet high by 72.5 feet long mural done by Krishen Khanna in pencil. It is a celebration of the wonderful history and achievements of the Cholas of Southern India during, roughly, the tenth to the fourteenth centuries. It represents the religion-centred culture they built and enriched in their own lands along the Coromandel Coast, their conquests on the Indian sub-continent and of Sri Lanka, and ...