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| title=Mother India<br />
| artist=[[Amrita Sher-Gil]]<br />
| year=1935<br />
| medium=[[oil on canvas]]<br />
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| museum=[[National Gallery of Modern Art]]<br />
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'''''Mother India''''' is an [[oil on canvas]] painting by Hungarian-born Indian artist [[Amrita Sher-Gil]] (1913 – 1941), completed in May/June 1935 in [[Simla]]. The painting depicts an Indian peasant mother with her son and daughter, and was one of 33 of Sher-Gil's works displayed at [[Amrita Sher-Gil's paintings at Lahore (1937)|her successful solo exhibition]] at [[Faletti's Hotel]] in [[Lahore]], [[Presidencies and provinces of British India|British India]], held in 1937. There it was priced at {{Currency|500|INR}}. Under India's [[Antiquities and Art Treasures Act (1972)]], the work is a national art treasure and must stay in the country.<ref name=Sundaram2010.418>Sundaram, pp. 418-422</ref><ref name=Sundaram2010.642>Sundaram, pp. 642–647</ref><ref name=Ramaswamy2010>{{cite book |last1=Ramaswamy |first1=Sumathi |title=The Goddess and the Nation: Mapping Mother India |date=2010 |publisher=Duke University Press |isbn=978-0-8223-9153-1 |pages=239–243 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OWfcoMnHU8gC&pg=PT239|language=en |chapter=6. Daughters of India}}</ref><ref name=Keserü>{{cite book |last1=Keserü |first1=Katalin |editor1-last=Dalmia |editor1-first=Yashodhara |title=Amrita Sher-Gil: Art & Life : a reader |date=2014 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-809886-7 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U7W4oAEACAAJ |language=en |chapter=8. Amrita Sher-Gil: the Indian painter and her French and Hungarian connections|pages=65–126}}</ref><ref name=Khanna2013>{{cite book |last1=Khanna |first1=Stuti |title=The Contemporary Novel and the City: Re-conceiving National and Narrative Form |date=2013 |publisher=Springer |location=Basingstoke |isbn=978-1-137-33624-8 |pages=131–132 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tezQAQAAQBAJ&pg=PT131 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=Chowdhury2024>{{cite journal |last1=Chowdhury |first1=Asma |title=Use of Figure as the Language of Artistic Expression: An Analysis Based on Indian Female Artists' Artworks |journal=Journal of South Asian Exchanges |date=22 August 2024 |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=1–16 |doi=10.21659/jsae/v1n2/v1n218 |url=https://saexchanges.com/v1n2/v1n218.pdf}}</ref><br />
[[File:Amrita Sher-Gil at Lahore 1937 Exhibition.jpg|thumb|Amrita Sher-Gil at her 1937 Lahore Exhibition]]<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[List of paintings by Amrita Sher-Gil]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
* {{Cite book |last=Dalmia|first=Yashodhara |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mj3mlgEACAAJ |title=Amrita Sher-Gil: A Life |date=2013 |publisher=Penguin Books |location=Gurugram |isbn=978-0-14-342026-2 |language=en}}<br />
*{{cite book |last1=Khullar |first1=Sonal |title=Worldly Affiliations: Artistic Practice, National Identity, and Modernism in India, 1930 1990 |date=2015 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-28367-1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5o0kDQAAQBAJ|language=en }}<br />
* {{cite book |last1=Sundaram |first1=Vivan |title=Amrita Sher-Gil: A Self-Portrait in Letters and Writings |date=2010 |publisher=Tulika Books |location=New Delhi |volume=1|pages=1–417|isbn=978-81-89487-59-1}}<br />
* {{cite book |last1=Sundaram |first1=Vivan |title=Amrita Sher-Gil: A Self-Portrait in Letters and Writings |date=2010 |publisher=Tulika Books |location=New Delhi |volume=2|pages=418–821|isbn=978-81-89487-59-1}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{cite web |title=Amrita Sher-Gil (list of paintings held at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi) |url=http://www.ngmaindia.gov.in/virtual-tour-of-amrita-sher-gil.asp |website=ngmaindia.gov.in |access-date=11 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231111064707/http://www.ngmaindia.gov.in/virtual-tour-of-amrita-sher-gil.asp|archive-date=11 November 2023}}<br />
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