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The city of Baroda, with its vibrant history of art and architecture,is a much-sought-after destination for art education. This is due in large part to Sayajirao Gaekwad III, the maharaja of the erstwhile princely state of Baroda. His art-collecting practice significantly shaped Baroda's modern art-and-craft institutions and industries. A scientific and progressive thinker, Sayajirao encouraged Baroda's alternative experiments in art, craft, and design and ...
This anthology frames the story of Baroda’s visual culture from the early 18th century to present times along the themes of provenance and cosmopolitanism. Baroda’s sphere of art production from the princely through to the contemporary firmly establishes it as a recognizable provenance. Simultaneously, a wide inclusion of local, regional and foreign ideas lends the provenance a cosmopolitan character: early artists, craftsmen and photographers engage ...