Artists
Sher-Gil's last canvas
In the autumn of 1941 Amrita Sher-Gil began painting the view from her roof in Lahore. She did not finish it.
Stories
The works, the people who made them, and what happened next.
Kalighat
Souvenirs, now in museums
Painters outside a Calcutta temple made cheap pictures for pilgrims. The survivors are now in museums.
Prints
The press that put gods on every wall
A painter bought a German press, lost it within seven years, and still ended up on almost every wall in India.
Coins
The rupee with a pig on it
In 1911 the Raj struck a new silver rupee for a new king. It was soon withdrawn, because of an elephant.
Looking
Turn the painting over
The front is what the artist meant you to see. The back is what everyone else left behind.