A Rare and Important Book
F.S. Aijazuddin is one of the foremost scholars of art history in Northern India and Pakistan and this book brings together many rare and never before published paintings. To underscore the historical importance of this book, it is usually only available in the "rare books" section of libraries. As a cultural artifact, it records a key historical intersection of colonial rule in India but also plays into notions of the culturally defined values which construct "high art". It is also important as a to see how certain artists became complicit in "imagining" Imperial Britain.
