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The ‘artist family’ presented in this book spans three generations: Umrao Singh Sher-Gil (1870-1954), his daughter Amrita Sher-Gil (1913-1941) and his grandson (Amrita’s sister Indira’s son) Vivan Sundaram (b. 1943).A scion of India’s Sikh aristocracy, Umrao Singh was a nationalist, an independent scholar with philosophical interests, and and eccentric, somewhat Tolstoyan figure in appearance. An amateur photographer of some genius, ...
Born in 1870 to the landed Aristocracy of the Punjab, Umrao Singh Sher-Gil of Majitha opted for a more contemplative life than his class had destined for him. He was a Sanskrit and Persian scholar and interested in the philosophy of religion. He had a long-standing friendship with the poet Mohammed Iqbal and greatly admired Leo Tolstoy, the Russian humanist. He was fascinated by astronomy, loved carpentry and calligraphy, practised Yoga, and had an abiding ...