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 British
professional artists, lured by the prospect of fame and fortune, began
arriving in India from 1760s onwards. While most of them applied their
talents to landscape painting, the portraits of the ruling elite or
pictures of historical events of imperial interest, there were some
with a different bent of mind, who were inspired by the bewildering
diversity of its exotic people, especially the native women, writes
Pran Nevile.
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