Founded in 1600 as a trading enterprise, the English East India company gradually transformed into a colonial power. By the ...

Taj Mahal at Sunset, kokka woodblock print on paper, 1919, Charles William Bartlett For a long time, there has been a general myth among art historians ... Colonial conquest of India enabled ...

The Picturesque favours such a controlled palette. The use of vibrant colours to capture India’s vitality is a feature of later European art, from the late 19th Century,” adds Giles.

Called Destination India: Foreign Artists in India, 1857-1947, the show focuses on artists who travelled to colonial India from ... a leading art firm which has put together the show.

“India, that is Bharat, shall be a union of states.” What seems patently clear to me is that this proposed rebranding has nothing to do with stamping out the vestiges of a reviled colonial ...