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

Academic point-scoring over long-dead excavators turns a potentially grand narrative into a series of inside-baseball ...

The objects themselves are "gorgeous": we see much "lively, expressive, dynamic sculpture", from "rudimentary" yakshas and ...

Living Traditions at The British Museum: 'sacred joy' - 5/5 The sacred art of three religions are traced back to their ...

A Treasury of Life: Indian Company Paintings c ... dominated by the picturesque style of landscape painting, the paintings of British residences in this region are starkly delineated, with ...

Painting sold of historic British defeat in India Not much is still known about Sita Ram. Hailing from Bengal, he seems to have been trained in the late Mughal school of Murshidabad, the capital ...

Reaching back more than 2,000 years, this new exhibition explores the origins of Hindu, Jain and Buddhist sacred art in the ...

His research led him to British commander Charles Cornwallis ... incorporating his emblem — the tiger — and references to his family. Using Higgins India ink for her paintings, Hasan established ...

In colonial India, that trust was deliberately fabricated ... The exhibition ‘Ticket Tika Chaap: The Art of the Trademark in the Indo-British Textile’ at the Museum of Art & Photography (MAP), ...

"They catered to British curiosity while satisfying European audience's fascination with the 'exoticism' of Indian life," says Kanupriya Sharma of DAG. Most studies of Company painting focus on ...