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Description:English 92 (Throughout Colour & B/W Illustrations)Form the JacketOne of the oldest inhabited cities in the world and the holiest in India. Varanasi has attracted pilgrims from all over India for over 2500 years. No account of the travels of Indian visitors and pilgrims to the city, however, is available because of the non-existence of the tradition of recording impressions of such visits by IndiansNor is there any record of foreign travelers visiting Varanasi until four centuries ago. It was then that travelers form the West started visiting Varanasi on a regular basis, and left animated accounts their visit. Later a number of landscape artists, almost entirely from Britain, began coming to India towards the end of the eighteenth century, and made superb sketches of Varanasi when they visited the city.The views of Varanasi by the visiting landscape artists gave not only the outside word but also the Indians themselves the first ever visual impression of the scenic splendours of the holy city,. Until then so such visual record existed because of the lack of the genre of landscape painting in an otherwise rich Indian art.Assembled from public and private art collections in India and abroad, these views are now being published together, along with a short survey of travelers;' accounts of their visit to Varanasi, for the first time. About the AuthorJagmohan Mahajan has written extensively on British landscape artists in India as also on Ganga. His publications include Picturesque Sketches and Travels of Thomas and William Daniell. The Raj British Views of Indian Cities and the Ganga Foreign Accounts of the River Scene. Travellers' AccountsVaranasi is one oWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Varanasi Vista (Early Views of the Holy City) English Jagmohan Mahajan. To get started finding Varanasi Vista (Early Views of the Holy City) English Jagmohan Mahajan, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: English 92 (Throughout Colour & B/W Illustrations)Form the JacketOne of the oldest inhabited cities in the world and the holiest in India. Varanasi has attracted pilgrims from all over India for over 2500 years. No account of the travels of Indian visitors and pilgrims to the city, however, is available because of the non-existence of the tradition of recording impressions of such visits by IndiansNor is there any record of foreign travelers visiting Varanasi until four centuries ago. It was then that travelers form the West started visiting Varanasi on a regular basis, and left animated accounts their visit. Later a number of landscape artists, almost entirely from Britain, began coming to India towards the end of the eighteenth century, and made superb sketches of Varanasi when they visited the city.The views of Varanasi by the visiting landscape artists gave not only the outside word but also the Indians themselves the first ever visual impression of the scenic splendours of the holy city,. Until then so such visual record existed because of the lack of the genre of landscape painting in an otherwise rich Indian art.Assembled from public and private art collections in India and abroad, these views are now being published together, along with a short survey of travelers;' accounts of their visit to Varanasi, for the first time. About the AuthorJagmohan Mahajan has written extensively on British landscape artists in India as also on Ganga. His publications include Picturesque Sketches and Travels of Thomas and William Daniell. The Raj British Views of Indian Cities and the Ganga Foreign Accounts of the River Scene. Travellers' AccountsVaranasi is one oWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Varanasi Vista (Early Views of the Holy City) English Jagmohan Mahajan. To get started finding Varanasi Vista (Early Views of the Holy City) English Jagmohan Mahajan, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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