Short answers, pulled from the story.
The earliest paintings in the Bhimbetka rock shelters are some 10,000 years old. These primitive tools and decorative rock paintings reflect an ancient tradition of human interaction with their landscape.
Dr. V. S. Wakankar discovered several painted rock shelters in Central India situated around the Vindhya mountain range. About 750 sites make up the Bhimbetka rock shelters which have been enrolled as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The famous detached Lion Capital of Ashoka with four animals was adopted as the official Emblem of India after independence. This artifact represents a confident and boldly mature style that was first of its kind iron casting without rust until date.
A group of six artists founded the Bombay Progressive Artists Group in 1952 to establish new ways of expressing India in the post-colonial era. The members were K. H. Ara S. K. Bakre H. A. Gade M.F. Husain S.H. Raza and Francis Newton Souza.
Abanindranath Tagore lived from 1871 to 1951 and led the Bengal School of Art which originated in Bengal primarily Kolkata and Shantiniketan. He promoted pre-colonial cultural identities while rejecting the Romanticized style of Company paintings during the British Raj.