As the writers approach Baroda from different vantage points, they render its
story in unique ways: as first-person accounts, and as art critics,
anthropologists and historians. Early artists, craftsmen and photographers
engage with Sayajirao Gaekwad III; the royal patron in turn represents these
practitioners at international exhibitions; itinerant builders and established
European architects contribute to a fast-modernizing princely state; artists,
art teachers and administrators set new directions for a Faculty of Fine Arts
(FFA) in post-Independence Baroda/India; patrons, gallerists, scholars and
artists shape contemporary Baroda's artistic culture.