A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c15.s8.t2.1

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‘The work of the modern school of Indian painters in Calcutta,’ Dr. Coomaraswamy writes, ‘is a phase of the National reawakening. Whereas the ambition of the nineteenth-century reformers had been to make India like England, that of the later workers has been to bring back or create a state of society in which the ideals expressed and implied in Indian culture shall be more nearly realized.’