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Born in 1887 in Bankuda District of Bengal. This new style of painting which was fully Indian in Character. That is why his paintings were held in a high regard in foreign countries.<br> </p> <p><br> <br> <br> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </p> He was always busy in new experiment based on folk art with a thing of novelty and modernity even through they are traditional. In the beginning he painted portraits but was not satisfied so he started so he started a new style by the inspiration of rural life and folk art and was also inspired from patua’s of Kalighat.<br> After some time he painted in ultra modern style which was called the Indianization of cubism and impressionism of Picasso.<br> He did not use foreign colors but carried on his paintings by local and folk colors only. 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