India’s colonial past revealed through 200 masterful paintings

DAG Sewak Ram Prayers and Recitations at the Muharram Festival - Opaque watercolour on paper, c. 1820. 
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Patna’s Sewak Ram painted this watercolour of prayers at a Muharram festival, 1820

Founded in 1600 as a trading enterprise, the English East India company gradually transformed into a colonial power.

By the late 18th Century, as it tightened…

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