British Rule

Age Of Darkness Post-Mogul
The Post-Mogul phase starts in the 18th century and continues to the begining of the 20th Century. This is a period of British Rule. Even though many historians try to hype the British rule, India was greatly damaged by their rule. The economy of India had been ravaged to fund the Industrial revolution of England. The scanty art from this period reflects the harsh conditions. People were too busy dealing with the periodic famines that ravaged India during the British rule. Art of India is at its worst era. Some beautiful art does come from this period though. Many come from Karnataka, a South Indian state and these are Classical. The art of this period is both classical and archaic, with archaic gradually becoming the norm. The British had no contributing influence on Indian art.
Author: NOVO E-mail: [email protected] 27th July 2000
This bird like piece of art is actually a unique cutting utensil from Bangla (Bengal), not found in the rest of the world. This is a Bot(h)i. It is much larger than a knife and its blade faces up, as you can see. It allows one to put a foot on the flat end (looks like the tail) if necessary to hold it still and then take the help of gravity to cut objects. The part that looks like as if it is a beak is a circular grating instrument. It is used for purposes like grating the white inside of a coconut. This is a most useful and ingenious utensil and is a regular item in every kitchen.
Image	Description	Form
	Female Bhut Location: Karnataka, India 1800 AD Material: Wood with traces of pigment Bhuts are supernatural spirits. This carving is rigid.	Archaic
	River Goddess Ganga Location: Punjab, NW India 1815 Material: Opaque watercolor and gold on paper There are s-curves moving but overall the picture is pretty static. But the use of colour is beautiful.	Classical?
	Parvati Suckling Ganesh Location: Jaipur, India 1820 AD Material: Opaque watercolor on paper. Playing beautifully with curves and geometry.	Classical
	Swarasvati Karnataka 1840 AD Material: Opaque watercolor on paper. Another exquisite painting from Karnataka. The use of colour tones and shapes is easily visible. Note the suffixes of the names of the Goddesses. They end in -vati (boti, North Indians usually use a -va when pronouncing Dravir -bo) boti is a suffix still used in Bangla ... used for females. Rupoboti is a female who has beaut and Mayaboti is a female who has Maya. -- NOVO	Classical
	Seven Sisters Madhya Pradesh, Central India 19th Century AD Very rigid and stylized	Archaic
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