Ranbir Singh
ALTHOUGH the character of villages and towns has gone considerable change over the last two centuries, the vestiges of wall paintings still available throughout Haryana serve as an important tool to peep into the lifestyles of the ruling classes, the trading community as well as the peasantry of the state. The painted havelis and wall paintings of Shekhawati came to limelight in the mid seventies through the efforts of foreign writers, but few people across the world are aware that there were, and still are, places and buildings in Haryana too which abound in this form of art treasure. It was only a matter of time and investigation awaiting revelations through the media that wall paintings of Haryana slowly begin to emerge out of the deep. 

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