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To browse Academia. This paper explores central questions around M. Establishing his practice in , Husain had to quickly grapple with questions of identity, as the concept of India as a nation had just been constructed. Gaining inspiration from a plethora of sources, from medieval Indian bronze sculptures, to modern Indian artists, Husain developed a modern Indian vocabulary.

In this paper, I explore how he created this and what was available to him as a modern artist. I am interested in his position as a Muslim artist, and how later in his life certain themes and vocabularies became unavailable to him as the socio-politics of India changed.

Exploring socio-political agents and actors, this anthropology of arts looks at a turning point in Indian history and how M.F. Husain engaged with and interpreted these changes, ultimately .

Exploring socio-political agents and actors, this anthropology of arts looks at a turning point in Indian history and how M. Husain engaged with and interpreted these changes, ultimately becoming one of most famous Indian artists. Husain has been singled out on two separate occasions by the forces of Hindutva. The Husain controversy must be situated within the traffic of images that form a visual vernacular cutting across the linguistic, regional and religious differences in India.

Historical Development of Contemporary Indian Art was visualized as part of the special publications programme on the completion of Golden Jubilee of the Lalit Kala Akadami. It was planned to cover the period from late nineteenth century when Raja Ravi Varma had flourished until the Independence of India in The scope of the material to be covered was the parallel manifestations in pictorial-visual arts of several regions of the whole country.

This has been the period of what the editors call 'art-turmoil, which includes both breakdown as well as rediscovery of our rich art tradition at a point when European aesthetic norms were introduced. This Conflict between indigenous and western modes leads to further conflict when Indian artists confronted first waves of modern movement of European Art.