Untitled (Breakers) Indra Dugar Oil on canvas, 1953 Indra Dugar was born in 1918 in Jiagunj, a town on the banks of the Hooghly River in Murshidabad, West Bengal. His family, Jains, who had migrated from Rajasthan a couple of centuries ago, held art in high regard. Although a completely self taught artist, he was introduced to painting at an early age by his father Hirachand Dugar (1898-1951), a respected artist and one of the first students of Kala Bhavan at Rabindranath Tagore's Vishwa Bharati University in Santiniketan. According to Dugar, his father's role in shaping his artistic career was vital. Apart from his one-man shows in India, his work has been exhibited in Paris in 1946, and in various cities in West Germany in 1964. Credited with having renewed the Bengal School tradition of painting with fresh life and energy in the 1960s, when it was flagging, Dugar won several awards for his work.