Indian Painters of Colonial Era (1750 - 1950 AD)

About the Book: This book is a documentation of significant practicing painters and sculptors of Greater Pre-Independence India between 1750 and 1950. The task of collecting this scattered material of Colonial-era to the united India lead to search for names of artists from Pakistan Sri Lanka Nepal Bangladesh and of course India. This register records almost 3000 names of practicing Indian artists gathered assiduously from National archives Museum records rare old journals and books and present living family members of deceased artists. In the absence of a legitimate record of the names of these forgotten artists names of many famous court painters under the patronage of Kings Nawabs and local rulers have been pushed into oblivion with their works described in generalized terms like coming from the ‘Colonial Period’ or ‘Post Mughal Period’ with a short description of a few painting styles of Provincial Schools.This book is the first of its kind and a small step towards giving recognition to these lost artists. About the Author: Roop Narayan Batham (Born 1943) is an art historian lexicographer and museologist. In his illustrious career spanning over 50 years he has been credited with producing and converting academic and general reference material on global art in Hindi and other Indian languages. To support non-English speaking students and teachers in India he has compiled art reference books like Definitional Dictionary of Global Art Terms (English – Hindi) which has been translated and published by Govt. of India in 22 Indian languages. Roop Narayan’s Dictionary of Fine Arts containing 17 different disciplines of fine arts like painting music dance theater film fashion etc. is being translated and published by Ministry of Education Govt. of India and another encyclopedic reference book of global art is in progress.