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What was the objective of the European painters behind making a contrast between the Indian and the European lifestyle?                                                                                                                                             

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The objective of the European painters behind making a contrast between the British and the Indian lifestyle was to portray the following features:

(i) Indian lifestyle was pre-modern, changeless and motionless typified by faqirs, cows and boats sailing on the river.

(ii) British lifestyle was a modern civilization that exerted a modernizing influence on Indian civilization.

(iii) This was done with the paintings that showed dramatic changes in India from being a traditional culture to a modernized one as a result of the modernizing influence of the British rule.