Sardar Ganda Thakar Singh widely known as Thakur Singh, was a celebrated Indian painter whose career spanned more than five decades. Born in the village of Verka near Amritsar in Punjab, he was largely self-taught. From childhood, he displayed a remarkable talent for drawing, often using charcoal to sketch on the walls of his home. His earliest artistic guidance came from the local painter Mohammed Alam, whom he later accompanied to Bombay and Calcutta, working as a stage and scene painter with various theatre companies. A turning point in his professional life came in 1917 at the age of eighteen, he won a cash prize at an exhibition in Shimla. This...