Features essays by leading auhtorities on the subject. India has an
astonishingly rich variety of painting traditions. While miniature painting
schools became virtually extinct with the decline of aristocratic patronage, a
number of local vernacular idioms still survive and continue to develop,
adjusting to social and political changes. The present collection of papers is
the volume of the proceedings of the conference Indian Painting: The
Lesser-Known Traditions, held in Houston in 2008. The aim of the conference was
to highlight these lesser-known artistic expressions grouped, until the recent
past, under the heading of folk art. These artistic expressions are now
beginning to be recognized as of pivotal importance