A History of Indian Painting: The modern period

Uring the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the history of india passed under a heavily shadowed phase. We shall leave it to the historian to research the detailed reasons why India allowed herself to be increasingly dominated by alliens from afar not only in the political but the cultural spheres to . But the basic reason must have been the serious weakening of the ethos of the people, the exhaustion of its creative elan when one wave in the rhythmic progression of history has reached its crest and hte parabola began to decents, developing an increasing momentum.