The Indian Subcontinent: Visual Arts Overview

The Arts in Pre-colonial India

• Architecture
• Painting
• Sculpture
• Applied Arts

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The Arts in Colonial India

• Architecture
• Painting
• Sculpture
• Applied Arts

Post-independence Art Forms

• Cinema
  • Identity through Bollywood cinema : The "reel" or "real" zone?
  • Bollywood in Rushdie's Fiction
  • The "Masala" Film Recipe

Related Web Resources: The Classical Arts: Architecture, Sculpture, Painting

• Indian Classical Arts (Ohio State)
• World Art Treasures - First program - India by Fondation Berger (Swiss website)
• Online Forum & Database for World Architecture

Related Web Resources: Contemporary Arts, including Cinema and Multimedia

• The Fabulous Laboratory (Bombay) This site "focuses on issues relevant to gender, sexuality, popular culture and politics in the Indian subcontinent."

Last Modified 28 February 2004