Indian Art and Letters

Author(s): India Society
Publisher: India Society

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India Society's Exhibition of Modern Indian Art and yet friendly and constructive, criticisms of their achievements or their shortcomings.
For true friendship should prove itself as much by praise as by just correction.
To the extent that you will succeed in these two directions you will, I can assure you, have rendered a great service both to this country and to India, for you will have made for a better understanding between the two peoples at a time when such understanding was more valuable and more urgently necessary than at any other time in this country's history
OPENING CEREMONY On Monday, December 10, 1934, at noon, Her Royal Highness the Duchess of York, attended by the Lady Helen Graham, opened the Society's Exhibition of Modern Indian Art at the New Burlington Galleries
Her Royal Highness was received by the Marquess of Zetland (President), Sir Francis Younghusband (Chairman), Mr John de La Valette (Hon. Organizer of the Exhibition and Vice-Chairman), and members of the Council.
The Maharaj-Kumari Sudharanı of Burdwan presented Her Royal Highness with a bouquet.
Members and guests who accepted invitations to be present included.
The Marchioness of Zetland, Lady Younghusband, the Marquess and Marchioness of Reading, the Duchess of Atholl, Lord and Lady Ampthill, the Maharaja of Burdwan, the Maharaj-Kumar of Burdwan, the Chinese Minister and Madame Quo, Sir Austen and Lady Chamberlain, Princess Sophia Duleep Singh, the Hon W. G. Ormsby-Gore, Lord and Lady Iliffe, Sir William Llewellyn (President of the Royal Academy). Lord and Lady Augustus Loftus, Lord and Lady Lloyd, Mr. J. A. Milne (Chairman of the Royal Society of Arts), His Excellency the Nepalese Minister, Sir Basil and Lady Blackett, Sir Denys and Lady Bray, Sir Felix and Lady Brunner, Sir Albion Banerji, Sir Charles and Lady Bayley, Mr. R. A. Butler, M.P., and Mrs. Butler, Lady Butler, Lady Beauchamp, Sir Ross and Lady Barker, Lady Carmichael, Sir Atul and Lady Chatterjee, Sir John and Lady Coleridge, Sir John Cumming, Sir William and Lady Crawford, Sir Hugh and Lady Cocke, Lady (Alexander) Campbell, Sir Alfred and Lady Chatterton, Sir William Ovens Clark, Sir Louis and Lady Dane, Sir Weldon and Lady Dalrymple-Champneys, Lady Dawkins, Mrs. John de La Valette, the Hon. Mrs. Grant Duff, Lady Eckstein, Sir William and Lady Foster, Sir Charles and Lady Fawcett, Sir Hamilton and Lady Grant, Sir Reginald and Lady
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