The Khelo India Programme was launched in 2016 by the Ministry of Sports and Youth affairs to revive the sports culture in India at the grass-root level. Its...
With the construction of the Stupas, the construction of the Hindu temples also started as free standing structures. The subject matter of the deities in the Hindu temples...
Jahangir’s contributions to the building art appear to have been rather insignificant when compared to the vast and ambitious projects of his father on the one hand, and...
Krishnadevaraya was one of the greatest rulers of South India. He was the third ruler of the Tuluva dynasty and brought almost entire South India under his reign....
Under Alauddin Khilji, the power of the sultanate of Delhi increased enormously. During his reign, there was a reaction to the Hindu elements of architecture in the building...
After Independence, the Department of Culture in the Ministry of Tourism and Culture has played a vital role in the preservation, promotion and dissemination of art and culture....
In Bengal, a new group of nationalist artists gathered around Abinandranath Tagore. This new group of painters rejected the art of Raja Ravi Varma as imitative and westernized....
The Vijaynagar stone sculptures of the fourteenth-fifteenth-sixteenth centuries have two different directions and both can be seen on the walls of the monuments of royal citadels. The rectangular...
Bronze casting was a widespread practice during the Indus Valley Civilization, particularly at Harappa. Bronze statues were made by the “lost wax technique”. This practice is still prevalent...
The early mosques were constructed by making necessary changes in Hindu temples. The gate of a temple was generally towards east and the Muslims started Namaz facing towards...