Dr Anjan Chakraverty was awarded a Small Study and Research Grant (India) 1992-93, when a Lecturer in Art History, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, for research on the shikargarh motif in miniature paintings and textiles of Mughal north India.
Dr Chakraverty lives in Varanasi. After his post-graduation in creative painting he did his doctoral research on ‘Landscape in Indian Miniature Painting’. His book, Indian Miniature Painting, was published in 1996. He shares his time between painting and teaching art history at the Faculty of Visual Art, Banaras Hindu University.