Rathin Maitra

[1][2] Rathin Maitra was born on 10 July in the year 1913 in Shitalai House, in Pabna of British India (present day Bangladesh).

His father, zamindar Jogendranath Maitra, was a leader of the national movement and used to have a great interest in Hindustani classical music.

Eminent orator and patriot Tulsi Charan Goswami was his maternal uncle, and poet and singer Jyotirindra Maitra was his elder brother.

He then travelled around India in search of Indian heritage to get an opportunity to know the social customs, manners, arts of different regions of the country.

In 1953, he was responsible for directing the first exhibition of Indian paintings in the United States, a joint initiative of the then Government of India and the Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata.