A school of clever artists in Bengal
is doing something to raise the public taste. The high merit of the
ancient Indian paintings at Ajanta and elsewhere is now fully
recognized. A great revival of pictorial art took place about A.D.
1570 in the reign of Akbar. From that date the Indo-Persian and
Indian schools of painting maintained a high standard of excellence,
especially in portraiture, for a century approximately. During the
eighteenth century marked deterioration may be observed. See _A
History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon_, Oxford, 1911.
17. The Jats detest Brahmans. The members of a Jat deputation
complained one day to the editor when in the Muzaffarnagar district
that they suffered many evils by reason of the Brahmans.
18. The author's meaning seems to be that building tombs is not an
old Hindoo usage.
19. Sivaji, the indomitable opponent of Aurangzeb in the Deccan,
belonged to the agricultural Kunbi caste. He was born in May A.D.
1627, and died in April 1680. The Brahman ministers of the Rajas of
Satara were known by the title of Peshwa. Baji Rao I, who died in
1740, the second Peshwa, was the first who superseded in actual power
his nominal master.
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