A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c20.s1.1

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THE style of drawing and painting introduced into India by command of Akbar late in the sixteenth century, although essentially and avowedly foreign, was quickly made their own by Indian native artists, both Hindu and Muhammadan, who may be fairly credited with having improved on the foreign models in certain respects. Modern Persian connoisseurs, however, do not admit the alleged improvement, and are said to regard with contempt the productions of the Indian imitators.