Encounters with Modern Indian Art: Essays and Discussions

This book explores modern art in India, tracing its evolution from the setting-up of the Progressive Artists Group in the 1940s to the contemporary movements today. It discusses some of the fundamental issues around Indian art, as well, such as the extent of its rootedness in the country.

Yashodhara Dalmia is an art historian and an independent curator based in New Delhi. Her book Amrita Sher-Gil - A Life (2006), which is a comprehensive account of the life of one of India’s acclaimed woman artists, received widespread international acclaim. Her book The Making of Modern Indian Art: The Progressives (2001), is regarded as the definitive account of a seminal phase of Indian art history. Her publication Buddha to Krishna: Life and Times of George Keyt (2017) is a biography of the famed Sri Lankan artist George Keyt. Her latest book Sayed Haider Raza: The Journey of an Iconic Artist (2021) is a biography of the well-known modernist artist Sayed Haider Raza. She has curated several large shows of modern Indian art including The Moderns (1996) which inaugurated the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, and Amrita Sher-Gil: A Passionate Quest (2014) at the NGMA, Delhi, Bengaluru, Mumbai.