A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c15.s8.t2.13

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All well-wishers to India will join in the hope that the promise shown by this new Bengālī school may lead to something more important than the works hitherto produced. Probably all critics will agree that nothing of high worth can be created by men who merely seek to imitate foreign models. If modern India is to evolve a new art of her own it must have its roots in the Indian past and appeal to Indian sentiment. 'L'art dans l'Inde sera indien, ou il ne sera pas'³; but 'to be, or not to be, that is the question' which at present no man can answer.