Scenes from Indian Life

Sarada Charan Ukil, Scenes from Indian Life, Calcutta: Chatterjee's Picture Albums, 1927

3 pages text, 25 pages including plates and one frontispiece with author's portrait along with a two-page description of plates at the end; original paperback and held together with silk strings.
10.5 x 8.8 in (26.8 x 22.5 cm)

An album of monochrome reproductions from the original burnt sienna brush drawings on paper with an introduction by James H. Cousins of Adyar, Madras.

Sarada Charan Ukil was a Bengali actor and artist, known for his role in the movie Prem Sanyas, "The Light of Asia", under the German director Franz Osten. Sarada was the father of Shantanu Ukil, one of the early pioneers of the Bengal School of Art.

Sarada Ukil was a pioneer of the New Delhi art movement between the 1920s and 1940s. Originally from Bikrampur, Dhaka, Sarada Ukil had migrated to Delhi in 1918.

Around 1926 Sarada Ukil left the Modern Art School of his friend Lala Raghubir and established his home at the Esplanade Road in Delhi. There he taught art to several students and his place would become the precursor of the Sarada Ukil School of Art, where his brothers Barada and Ranada joined him in the late 1920s. In 1994, the Sarada Ukil School of Art was officially approved as a school for Art Teachers. (Source: Wikipedia)

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