Patna Kalam, Indo Persian British art or companies art- time to revive.

Patna Kalam painting or British-Persian- Indian fusion of culture or company paintings developed during 18th to 20th century its centres are Patna, Ara, Danapur. Aurangzeb, the Mughal emperor discouraged Hindu court poets and artists, did not patronised the artists who had been working for the Mughals since its formation. 

Artists, therefore, divided into a number of groups and went to other parts of the Indian subcontinent, a group came in the eastern India setup it's facility and install institution at Murshidabad, later it was shifted to Patna. Patna school of paintings is the fusion of Mughal art- British art and Persian styles of art in the form of Indian styles of paintings.

 Patna Kalam was deeply influenced by daily life of common people , the main subjects were bazar scenes, local rulers, local festivals and ceremonies the painters of the Patna Kalam usually used the colours indigenously from plants barks flowers and metals, generally they painted on glass, mica and ivory sheets. Some famous painters of the Patna Kalam where sevakram Lal Das, ishwari Prasad and contribution had also been from women sections.

 one of the important characteristic of the Patna Kalam is that usually they don't paint any landscape foreground in the shading of slide forms. These paintings are painted straightway with the brush without using the pencil to delineate the contours of picture. These techniques was commonly known as "Kajali Seahi".

The Patna Kalam faced competition from the Madhubani paintings which is marketed professionally both at home and abroad .This is the most unfortunate things about the Patna Kalam that like the world famous Madhubani paintings, it has not received its due share of acknowledgement despite of that many believe that this painting was far superior to the more popular Mithila paintings.