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Freely translated, Lal Bahadur Shastri means "Graduate Brave Jewel." He was born in 1904, the second son of a minor tax collector in the vil lage of Mughal Sarai, near the holy city of Benares. His father died when he was an infant. The child belonged to the Kayasth caste, who were disdained as quislings by other Hindus because they became clerks and officials under the Moslem rule of the conquering Mogul emperors. Their reputation for shrewdness is so great that an Indian saying runs, "If you meet a Kayasth and a serpent, kill the Kayasth first...
Other important acquisitions in the Department are three Indian portrait miniatures of the Mughal School of the seventeenth-eighteenth centuries, the gift of Mr. Denman W. Ross...
...writing of Indian drawings Dr. Coomaraswamy has said that the keynote of Mughal art of this period is its profound interest in individual character. The portraits "bring before us the form and features of nearly every notable person in India for more than two centuries...
...deliver the ninth of his lectures on "Indian Art and Culture" in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum at 4.30 o'clock today. Dr. Coomaraswamy, who is Keeper of the Section on Indian Art in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, will speak particularly of "Rajput and Mughal Painting." The lecture will be illustrated...
...Vedanta, Yoga; November 21, Buddhism, Jainism; November 26, Vaishnava, Saiva and Sakta Theology; November 23, Epics, Drama, Music and Dancing; December 3, Theory of Art Silpa Sastras, Caste Status of Craftsmen; December 5, Buddhist Sculpture; December 10, Brahmanical Sculpture; December 12, Buddhist and Jaina Painting; December 17, Rajput and Mughal Painting; December 19, Architecture...