Study Guide · Chapter 6
Mnemonic Index
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A quick-fire table gathering every memory hook used in this book, so you can drill them as a standalone set once you've read both content chapters at least once.
| Cluster / Topic | Memory Hook |
|---|---|
| Ajanta vs Ellora | "Ajanta paints, Ellora carves" — Ajanta is famous for murals; Ellora is famous for the rock-cut Kailasa Temple. |
| Madhubani vs Warli | "Loud Madhubani, quiet Warli" — bold multicoloured line work (Bihar) vs stark white geometric figures on mud-red (Maharashtra). |
| Bani Thani | Peg: "Bani Thani, India's Mona Lisa" — Nihal Chand, Kishangarh school, patron Sawant Singh. |
| Bengal School vs Progressive Artists' Group | "Old revives, New rebels" — Bengal School (1900s, revivalist, Abanindranath Tagore) vs PAG (1947, modernist, Husain/Raza/Souza). |
| Raja Ravi Varma | "Ravi Varma prints the gods" — pioneered mass oleograph prints of Hindu deities; predates both later schools. |
| Kalamkari's two styles | "Srikalahasti draws by hand (pen), Machilipatnam prints by block" — same craft, two Andhra towns. |
| Phad painting | Peg: a scroll that's also a stage prop — Bhopa singers unroll it at night while narrating the story. |
| Ustad Mansur | "Mansur paints nature" — Jahangir's naturalist painter of birds and animals. |
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