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Conserving Treasures: Jamini Roy and Modern Indian Art
One cannot overstate the importance of Jamini Roy’s (1887 – 1972) revolutionary role in the development of modern Indian art from late colonial period to the establishment of India as a nation state in 1947. Along with Amrita Sher-Gil (1913 – 1941) and poet-painter Rabindranath Tagore (1861 – 1941), Roy...