The documentation of the recent history of the arts and artists of India has been more fanciful than factual. This history of post-independence India is rather recent to have been recorded fully. Early scholars were busy trying to revive and re-establish art forms lost to a long, colonial rule. This book focuses on the last fifty years, coinciding with India attaining freedom from foreign rule. Most dramatis personae are alive and have contributed personal recollections to this book.