Photos: 10,000 years of Indian art soon to be part of a digital encyclopedia

Art collector Abhishek Poddar and his team at the Museum of Art & Photography (MAP) Academy are putting together an Encyclopedia of Indian Art going back 10,000 years. It’s an ambitious digital initiative set to launch on April 21. Take a peek at some of the featured art and artefacts

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Krishna's longing for Radha, from the Gita Govinda of Jayadeva, c. 1820-1825, gum tempera and gold on paper. Illustrating a scene from the Gita Govinda, a 12th-century Sanskrit epic, this miniature painting — made in the Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh — vividly captures the divine love between the Hindu deities Krishna and Radha.  (Cleveland Museum of Art)

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Sankh, c. 19th century, shell, brass, wax. (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

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Indian Roller on a sandalwood branch, Sheikh Zain al-Din, 1779, Opaque colours and ink on paper. This 1779 painting by Sheikh Zain al-Din was commissioned as part of the “Impey Album”, to record the flora and fauna of Calcutta (now Kolkata). (Minneapolis Institute of Art)

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Untitled (Fishing), Jivya Soma Mashe, c. 2017, Natural pigments on cloth. A Warli painting depicting several human figures — drawn in a straightforward geometric style — gathered around a large fishing net, rendered on cloth. (Museum of Art and Photography)

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Sainchi Phulkari, 20th century, Embroidered cotton, floss silk.  (Museum of Art and Photography)

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Refugees Exercising in a Camp to Drive Away Lethargy and Despair, Kurukshetra, Punjab, c. 1947, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Gelatin silver print.  (Museum of Art and Photography)

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Abhishek Poddar (left) is a prominent collector and patron of the arts in India, and a Founder-Trustee at the Museum of Art & Photography. Nathaniel Gaskell. (right) is founder and director of the MAP Academy,

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The Maharaja of Ajaigarh with his three sons, Lala Deen Dayal, c.1882, Albumen print. Lala Deen Dayal was one of the most prominent Indian photographers working in the colonial era, and the founder of one of the first Indian-owned photography studios, Deen Dayal & Sons.  (Hugh Huxley Collection)

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Shah Jahan hunting blackbucks with trained cheetahs, c. 1710–15, Ink, gold, and opaque watercolour on paper. With its naturalistic imagery and figural representation of the Emperor Shah Jahan on the upper left, this Rajput painting appears to draw inspiration from Mughal works that artists at the Mewar court in Udaipur might have come across.  (Metropolitan Museum of Art)