Painting
Whole chapter · 20–30 focused hours
Painting
A first-attempt learner with school-level reading and little retained ancient/medieval history or art history. Later chapters assume the earlier chronological context; History optional and practical arts training are outside scope.
Includes
- Selected explanatory readings, images/maps and source extracts
- Brief chronology or comparison notes
- Available mapped practice, mistake review and one initial recall review
Separate time needed
- Subsequent spaced revision and full mock examinations
- Reading every reference book and optional exercise in full
- Exclude studio art training, exhaustive artist biographies and duplicate sculpture reading.
Editorial planning estimate; not measured learner time
- Prehistoric rock paintings
- Mural traditions from Ajanta to Kerala
- Miniature painting: Pala, Jain, Sultanate and Mughal
- Rajasthani and Pahari miniatures
- Folk and tribal painting traditions
- Colonial patronage and artistic nationalism
- Modern experiments and public expression
Whole chapter reading
- An Introduction to Indian Art Part I, Class XI, ch. 1 Prehistoric Rock Paintings ↗
Rock paintings: context, materials and visual evidence
- An Introduction to Indian Art Part I, Class XI, ch. 5 Later Mural Traditions ↗
Mural traditions and selected examples
- An Introduction to Indian Art Part II: Manuscript Painting ↗
Manuscript painting: formats and regional conventions
- An Introduction to Indian Art Part II: Rajasthani Schools of Painting ↗
Selected Rajasthani school comparisons
- An Introduction to Indian Art Part II: Mughal School of Miniature Painting ↗
Mughal workshop, patronage and picture analysis
- An Introduction to Indian Art Part II: Deccani Schools of Painting ↗
Deccani schools and selected works
- An Introduction to Indian Art Part II: Pahari Schools of Painting ↗
Pahari school comparisons
- An Introduction to Indian Art Part II: Bengal School and Cultural Nationalism ↗
Company painting, academic realism, Bengal School, artistic nationalism and selected works. Exclude the conflicting 1937 Haripura-session date on printed page 88; use the case discussion on page 91 without treating all panel creation dates as identical.
- An Introduction to Indian Art Part II: Modern Indian Art ↗
PDF pages 1–12 and selected work analyses: modernism, political art, abstraction and narrative art. The group-formation date on printed page 103 is not assigned pending corroboration.
- An Introduction to Indian Art Part II: Living Art Traditions of India ↗
Painting traditions section; craft production is assigned to Heritage
- Nitin Singhania, Indian Art and Culture (publisher page with table of contents) ↗
Chapter 7 only for named traditions absent from the selected NCERT comparisons; use only sections filling gaps in the assigned school-text readings.
Book required