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• Why did the scroll painters and potters come to Kalighat? Why did they begin to paint new themes?
• Why can we think of Raja Ravi Varma’s paintings as national?
• Why do you think some artists wanted to develop a national style of art?
• Why did some artists produce cheap popular prints? What influence would such prints have had on the minds of people who looked at them?
• In what way did the British history paintings in India reflect the attitudes of imperial conquerors?
• Describe in your own words one painting from this chapter which suggests that the British were more powerful than Indians. How does the artist depict this?
• Point out which of the following were brought in with British art: (a) oil painting (b) miniatures (c) life-size portrait painting (d) use of perspective (e) mural art