"K.C. Aryan was a productive painter himself. Twice his paintings drew attention from the authorities. A few years before independence, during a communal riot in the North-West Frontier Province, Muslims paraded a group of Hindu women naked. He depicted the scene. The British authorities feared it would stoke resentment among the Hindus, so he had to abscond from their searchlight for a while. Come independence, his community of Lahore Hindus was partly massacred and partly had to flee for their lives. In Delhi, near Kashmiri gate, they had to live as refugees. Aryan’s painting of the refugee camp was titled: “Freedom comes for us.” Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was not amused."
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Elst K. quoted from Review of "From the Personal Collection of KC Aryan. Unknown Masterpieces of Indian Folk & Tribal Art (KC Aryan’s Home of Folk Art, Gurgaon 2016, 301 pp., 635 illustrations). " presenting KC Aryan’s art collection, published in (Law Animated World, Hyderabad, 16 July 2016)
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K. C. Aryan
1919 – 2002
K. C. Aryan (1919-2002) was a painter, sculptor, art historian and a pioneer-collector of folk and tribal art objects; and founder of the Museum of Folk and Tribal Art, better known as K.C. Aryan's Home of Folk Art, founded in 1984 in Gurgaon.
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