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| birth_name = Brijinder Nath Goswamy
| birth_date = 15 August 1933
| birth_place = [[Sargodha]], [[British India]]
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| occupation = Art historian<br/>Art critic
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'''Brijinder Nath Goswamy''' is an Indian [[art critic]], [[art historian]] and a former [[vice chairman]] of the Sarabhai Foundation of [[Ahmedabad]], which runs the [[Calico Museum of Textiles]].<ref name="Who's who of Indian Writers, 1999: A-M">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QA1V7sICaIwC&q=Prof.+Brijinder+Nath+Goswamy&pg=PA413 | title=Who's who of Indian Writers, 1999: A-M | publisher=Sahitya Akademi | author=Kartik Chandra Dutt | year=1999 | pages=413 of 1490 | isbn=9788126008735}}</ref> Goswamy is best known for his scholarship on [[Pahari painting]]<ref name="The master of small things">{{cite web | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-times/The-master-of-small-things/articleshow/45590747.cms | title=The master of small things | newspaper=Times of India | date=21 December 2014 | access-date=25 October 2015}}</ref> and Indian miniature paintings.<ref name="The big world of miniatures">{{cite web | url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/lunch-with-bs-b-n-goswamy-art-historian-114120600015_1.html | title=The big world of miniatures | newspaper=Business Standard | date=5 December 2014 | access-date=25 October 2015}}</ref> He is the author of over 20 books on arts and culture,<ref name="Who's who of Indian Writers, 1999: A-M" /><ref name="Amazon profile">{{cite web |url= https://www.amazon.com/B.-N.-Goswamy/e/B001JOHI9M/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0 |title= Amazon profile |publisher=Amazon |date= 2015 |access-date= 24 October 2015}}</ref> including ''Sakti Burman: A Private Universe'', a monograph on the life and works of [[Sakti Burman]], renowned Bengali painter<ref name="Sakti Burman: A Private Universe">{{cite book |title= Sakti Burman: A Private Universe |publisher=Skira |author1= Brijinder Nath Goswamy |author2= Rosa Maria Falva |editor=Rosa Maria Falva |year=2015 |page=216 |isbn= 978-8857226194 }}</ref> and ''Masters of Indian Painting 1100-1900'', a treatise on Indian miniature art.<ref name="Masters of Indian Painting 1100-1900" /> The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian award of the [[Padma Shri]] in 1998 and followed it up with the third highest honour of the [[Padma Bhushan]] in 2008.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web |url= http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title= Padma Awards |publisher= Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2015 |access-date= 21 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://www.webcitation.org/6U68ulwpb?url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 November 2014 }}</ref>

==Biography==
[[File:Chandigarh Museum.jpg|thumb|Museum of Fine Arts, [[Punjab University, Chandigarh]].]]
Goswamy was born on 15 August 1933 at [[Sargodha]] of the [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab province]] (presently in Pakistan) of [[British India]],<ref name="Who's who of Indian Writers, 1999: A-M" /> to B.L. Goswamy, a District and Sessions Judge.<ref name="Rejecting babudom for the love of art">{{cite web | url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2003/20030809/cth1.htm#8 | title=Rejecting babudom for the love of art | work=The Tribune | date=9 August 2003 | access-date=24 October 2015}}</ref> After the early schooling at various schools in the province, he did his intermediate studies at the Hindu College, [[Amritsar]] and secured his master's degree from [[Punjab University, Chandigarh]] in 1954. He joined the [[Indian Administrative Service]] in 1956 and after working in the Bihar cadre for two years, he resigned from the service in 1958 to continue his studies in art.<ref name="Brijinder Nath Goswamy">{{cite web | url=http://www.roopinder.com/profile-articles-2/brijinder-nath-goswamy/ | title=Brijinder Nath Goswamy | publisher=Roopinder Singh | date=2015 | access-date=25 October 2015}}</ref> He returned to Punjab University and did research on [[Kangra painting]] and its social backdrop, under the guidance of the renowned historian, Hari Ram Gupta, to obtain a doctoral degree (PhD) in 1961.<ref name="Who's who of Indian Writers, 1999: A-M" /> It is reported that his examiners were [[Arthur Llewellyn Basham]], the Indologist, and the art critic, [[W.G. Archer]].<ref name="Rejecting babudom for the love of art" />

During the course of his research, he joined [[Punjab University, Chandigarh, India|Punjab University]] as a member of its faculty of Art History, where he would spend his entire career and eventually superannuate as a professor. While working there, he took a break and worked as a visiting professor at the South Asian Institute of the [[University of Heidelberg]] from 1973 till 1981.<ref name="Who's who of Indian Writers, 1999: A-M" /> He also served as a visiting professor at various other international universities such as [[University of California, Berkeley|California, Berkeley]], [[University of Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]] and [[University of Zurich|Zurich]].<ref name="Rejecting babudom for the love of art" /> At Punjab University, he developed the Museum of Fine Arts, as its director,<ref name="Newsletter, East Asian Art and Archaeology, Issues 57-70">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=37mfAAAAMAAJ&q=museum+of+fine+arts+punjab+university+history&pg=PA49 | title=Newsletter, East Asian Art and Archaeology, Issues 57-70 | publisher=University of Michigan Libraries | year=1998}}</ref> and the museum holds 1200 creations of contemporary Indian art.<ref name="Department of Art History and Visual Arts">{{cite web | url=http://ahva.puchd.ac.in/ | title=Department of Art History and Visual Arts | publisher=Punjab University | date=2015 | access-date=25 October 2015}}</ref> Besides his academic career, he served as the vice chairman of the [[Centre for Cultural Resources and Training]] (CCRT), a nodal agency under the Government of India providing training to educators who are involved in educational programmes on Indian culture.<ref name="Who's who of Indian Writers, 1999: A-M" /> He has been a member of the Governing Committee of the [[Indian Council of Historical Research]] (ICHR) and has chaired the Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi.<ref name="Who's who of Indian Writers, 1999: A-M" />

Goswamy is married to Karuna, an art historian, academic, and a former professor of [[Punjab University]]. The couple has one son and one daughter, Apurva and Malavika.<ref name="Rejecting babudom for the love of art" /> He lives in [[Chandigarh]], [[India]].<ref name="The big world of miniatures" />

==Legacy==
Goswamy is considered by many as one of the most prominent scholars of Indian miniature painting.<ref name="The big world of miniatures" /> He is known to have specialised knowledge of [[Pahari painting]], a genre of traditional miniature painting originated in the hills of [[Punjab region]].<ref name="The master of small things" /> His 1968 article, ''Pahari Painting: The Family as the Basis of Style'',<ref name="Pahari Painting: The Family as the Basis of Style">{{cite journal | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qz0OyjDBA6sC&q=%22Pahari+Painting%3A+The+Family+as+the+Basis+of+Style.%22&pg=PA109 | title=Pahari Painting: The Family as the Basis of Style | author=B. N. Goswamy | journal=Marg | date=September 1968 | volume=XXI | issue=4| isbn=9780391024120 }}</ref> is a study of this genre, where he is reported to have been successful in unearthing the genealogy of renowned miniaturists such as Pandit Seu, [[Nainsukh]] and [[Manaku]].<ref name="Interview">{{cite web | url=http://www.india-seminar.com/2014/659/659_interview.htm | title=Interview | publisher=India Seminar | date=2015 | access-date=25 October 2015}}</ref> He published five books on this topic, ''Nainsukh of Guler: A Great Indian Painter from a Small Hill-State'',<ref name="Nainsukh of Guler: A Great Indian Painter from a Small Hill-State">{{cite book | title=Nainsukh of Guler: A Great Indian Painter from a Small Hill-State | publisher=Niyogi Books |author1=B. N. Goswamy |author2=Eberhard Fischer | year=2012 | pages=304 | isbn=978-8189738761}}</ref> ''Pahari Masters: Court Painters of Northern India''<ref name="Pahari Masters: Court Painters of Northern India">{{cite book | title=Pahari Masters: Court Painters of Northern India | publisher=Niyogi Books |author1=B.N. Goswamy |author2=Eberhard Fischer | year=2012 | pages=392 | isbn=978-8189738464}}</ref> ''Painters at the Sikh Court'',<ref name="Painters at the Sikh Court">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gUk3AAAAIAAJ | title=Painters at the Sikh Court | publisher=F. Steiner | author=B. N. Goswamy | year=1975 | pages=146 | isbn=9783515020978}}</ref> ''Essence of Indian Art''<ref name="Essence of Indian Art">{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/essenceofindiana00gosw | title=Essence of Indian Art | publisher=Asian Art Museum of San Francisco | author=B. N. Goswamy | year=1986 | isbn=9780939117000 }}</ref> and ''Masters of Indian Painting 1100-1900''.<ref name="Masters of Indian Painting 1100-1900">{{cite book | url=http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/BEAMAS.html | title=Masters of Indian Painting 1100-1900 | publisher=University of Washington Press |author1=Milo Beach |author2=B. N. Goswamy |author3=Eberhard Fischer | year=2011 | pages=800 | isbn=9783907077504}}</ref> Collaborating with [[Eberhard Fischer (art historian)|Eberhard Fischer]], the [[Padma Shri]] winning Swiss-based German art historian and the co-author of a few of his books, he has staged a series of shows, under the title, ''Wonder of the Age'', in many parts of the world.<ref name="The master of small things" />

His work, ''The Spirit of Indian Painting: Close Encounters with 101 Great Works, 1100-1900''<ref name="The Spirit of Indian Painting: Close Encounters with 101 Great Works, 1100-1900">{{cite book | title=The Spirit of Indian Painting: Close Encounters with 101 Great Works, 1100-1900 | publisher=Penguin India | author=B. N. Goswamy | year=2014 | pages=560 | isbn=978-0670086573}}</ref> is a treatise on selected creations from Jain manuscripts to Indian miniatures.<ref name="Whispers from the past">{{cite web | url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-literaryreview/whispers-from-the-past/article6946757.ece | title=Whispers from the past | publisher=The Hindu | date=1 March 2015 | access-date=25 October 2015}}</ref> He has published 20 books to date, apart from several articles he has published in Indian and international journals and magazines.<ref name="Who's who of Indian Writers, 1999: A-M" /> ''A Jainesque Sultanate Shahnama and the context of pre-Mughal painting in India'',<ref name="A Jainesque Sultanate Shahnama and the context of pre-Mughal painting in India (Rietberg series on Indian art)">{{cite book | title=A Jainesque Sultanate Shahnama and the context of pre-Mughal painting in India (Rietberg series on Indian art) | publisher=Museum Rietberg | author=B. N. Goswamy | year=1988 | pages=71 | isbn=978-3907070222}}</ref> ''A Place Apart: Painting in Kutch, 1720-1820'',<ref name="A Place Apart: Painting in Kutch, 1720-1820">{{cite book | title=A Place Apart: Painting in Kutch, 1720-1820 | publisher=Oxford University Press |author1=B.N. Goswamy |author2=Anna L. Dallapiccola | year=1984 | pages=94 | isbn=978-0195613117}}</ref> ''Painted visions: The Goenka collection of Indian paintings'',<ref name="Painted visions: The Goenka collection of Indian paintings">{{cite book | title=Painted visions: The Goenka collection of Indian paintings | publisher=Lalit Kala Akademi | author=B. N. Goswamy | year=1999 | pages=297 | isbn=978-8187507000}}</ref> ''Ranga Roopa Gods, Words, Images'',<ref name="Ranga Roopa Gods, Words, Images">{{cite book | title=Ranga Roopa Gods, Words,Images | publisher=Niyogi Books | author=B. N. Goswamy | year=2010 | pages=100 | isbn=978-8189738631}}</ref> ''The Word is Sacred, Sacred is the Word: The Indian Manuscript Tradition'',<ref name="The Word is Sacred, Sacred is the Word: The Indian Manuscript Tradition">{{cite book | title=The Word is Sacred, Sacred is the Word: The Indian Manuscript Tradition | publisher=Philip Wilson Publishers | author=B. N. Goswamy | year=2008 | pages=204 | isbn=978-0856676536}}</ref> ''Domains of Wonder: Selected Masterworks of Indian Painting''<ref name="Domains of Wonder: Selected Masterworks of Indian Painting">{{cite book | title=Domains of Wonder: Selected Masterworks of Indian Painting | publisher=San Diego Museum of Art |author1=B. N. Goswamy |author2=Caron Smith | year=2005 | pages=304 | isbn=978-0937108345}}</ref> and ''I See No Stranger: Sikh Early Art and Devotion'',<ref name="I See No Stranger: Sikh Early Art and Devotion">{{cite book | title=I See No Stranger: Sikh Early Art and Devotion | publisher=Mapin Publishing |author1=B. N. Goswamy |author2=Caron Smith | year=2006 | pages=216 | isbn=978-1890206048}}</ref> are some of his other notable books. ''A Layered World'' is a 40,000-word audio-visual presentation prepared by Goswamy for Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi.<ref name="A Layered World">{{cite AV media | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBYu2oOh2T0 | title=A Layered World | publisher=Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi | date=21 April 2015 | people=B. N. Goswamy | medium=Audio Visual presentation}}</ref> He also writes a regular column in [[The Tribune (Chandigarh)|The Tribune]], titled ''Art n Soul''<ref name="Rejecting babudom for the love of art" /> and delivers keynote addresses and lectures, in India and abroad.<ref name="Look at art intently, and with patience">{{cite web | url=http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/VPj8BLOjI9cYebLCD65npO/Look-at-art-intently-and-with-patience.html | title=Look at art intently, and with patience | publisher=Live Mint | date=16 December 2011 | access-date=25 October 2015}}</ref>

==Awards and honours==
When Goswamy retired from his academic career, [[Punjab University, Chandigarh, India|Punjab University]] made him the Emeritus Professor.<ref name="The big world of miniatures" /> He held the [[Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship]] from 1969 to 1970 <ref>{{cite web| title = Official list of Jawaharlal Nehru Fellows (1969-present)|work = [[Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund]] | url = http://www.jnmf.in/flist.html }}</ref> and the Sarabhai Fellowship in 1994.<ref name="Who's who of Indian Writers, 1999: A-M" /> He was also a Mellon Senior Fellow of the [[National Humanities Center]], [[North Carolina]].<ref name="Who's who of Indian Writers, 1999: A-M" /> The Government of India awarded him the civilian honour of the [[Padma Shri]] in 1998.<ref name="Padma Awards" /> He was again included in the [[Indian honours system|Republic Day Honours]] list in 2008, this time for the third highest honour of the [[Padma Bhushan]].<ref name="Padma Bhushan Awardees">{{cite journal | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s-gDAAAAMBAJ&q=Prof.+Brijinder+Nath+Goswamy&pg=PT18 | title=Padma Bhushan Awardees | journal=Pratiyogita Darpan | date=March 2008 | volume=2 | issue=21| last1=Darpan | first1=Pratiyogita }}</ref>

==Selected bibliography==
* {{cite journal | title=Pahari Painting: The Family as the Basis of Style | author=B. N. Goswamy | journal=Marg | date=September 1968 | volume=XXI | issue=4}}
* {{cite book | title=Painters at the Sikh Court | publisher=F. Steiner | author=B. N. Goswamy | year=1975 | pages=146 | isbn=9783515020978}}
* {{cite book | title=A Place Apart: Painting in Kutch, 1720-1820 | publisher=Oxford University Press |author1=B.N. Goswamy |author2=Anna L. Dallapiccola | year=1984 | pages=94 | isbn=978-0195613117}}
* {{cite book | title=Essence of Indian Art | publisher=Asian Art Museum of San Francisco | author=B. N. Goswamy | year=1986 | isbn=9780939117000 | url=https://archive.org/details/essenceofindiana00gosw }}
* {{cite book | title=A Jainesque Sultanate Shahnama and the context of pre-Mughal painting in India (Rietberg series on Indian art) | publisher=Museum Rietberg | author=B. N. Goswamy | year=1988 | pages=71 | isbn=978-3907070222}}
* {{cite book | title=Painted visions: The Goenka collection of Indian paintings | publisher=Lalit Kala Akademi | author=B. N. Goswamy | year=1999 | pages=297 | isbn=978-8187507000}}
* {{cite book | title=Domains of Wonder: Selected Masterworks of Indian Painting | publisher=San Diego Museum of Art |author1=B. N. Goswamy |author2=Caron Smith | year=2005 | pages=304 | isbn=978-0937108345}}
* {{cite book | title=I See No Stranger: Sikh Early Art and Devotion | publisher=Mapin Publishing |author1=B. N. Goswamy |author2=Caron Smith | year=2006 | pages=216 | isbn=978-1890206048}}
* {{cite book | title=The Word is Sacred, Sacred is the Word: The Indian Manuscript Tradition | publisher=Philip Wilson Publishers | author=B. N. Goswamy | year=2008 | pages=204 | isbn=978-0856676536}}
* {{cite book | title=Ranga Roopa Gods, Words, Images | publisher=Niyogi Books | author=B. N. Goswamy | year=2010 | pages=100 | isbn=978-8189738631}}
* {{cite book | title=Masters of Indian Painting 1100-1900 | publisher=University of Washington Press |author1=Milo Beach |author2=B. N. Goswamy |author3=Eberhard Fischer | year=2011 | pages=800 | isbn=9783907077504}}
* {{cite book | title=Pahari Masters: Court Painters of Northern India | publisher=Niyogi Books |author1=B.N. Goswamy |author2=Eberhard Fischer | year=2012 | pages=392 | isbn=978-8189738464}}
* {{cite book | title=Nainsukh of Guler: A Great Indian Painter from a Small Hill-State | publisher=Niyogi Books |author1=B. N. Goswamy |author2=Eberhard Fischer | year=2012 | pages=304 | isbn=978-8189738761}}
* {{cite book | title=The Spirit of Indian Painting: Close Encounters with 101 Great Works, 1100-1900 | publisher=Penguin India | author=B. N. Goswamy | year=2014 | pages=560 | isbn=978-0670086573}}
* {{cite book |title= Sakti Burman: A Private Universe |publisher= Skira |author= Brijinder Nath Goswamy |author2= Rosa Maria Falva |editor= Rosa Maria Falva |year=2015 |page=216 |isbn= 978-8857226194}}
* {{cite book | title=Manaku of Guler: The Life and Work of another great Indian Painter from a small Hill State | publisher=Niyogi Books | author=B. N. Goswamy | pages=512 | isbn=978-9385285820}}

==See also==
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* [[Calico Museum of Textiles]]
* [[Eberhard Fischer (art historian)|Eberhard Fischer]]
* [[Sakti Burman]]
* [[Arthur Llewellyn Basham]]
* [[Nainsukh]]
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{{portal|India|Arts}}

==References==
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==External links==
* {{cite web | url=http://www.india-seminar.com/2014/659/659_interview.htm | title=Interview with B. N. Goswamy| publisher=India Seminar | date=2015 | access-date=25 October 2015}}
* {{cite AV media | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBYu2oOh2T0 | title=A Layered World | publisher=Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi | date=21 April 2015 | people=B. N. Goswamy | medium=Audio Visual presentation}}
*The Art of Seeing: BN Goswamy illuminates a lost world of Indian painting. http://www.caravanmagazine.in/reviews-and-essays/art-seeing

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