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Raja Ravi Varma was a journalist.

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The above statement is False.
Raja Ravi Verma was a painter. A new visual culture was emerging by the end of the 19th century in India. The installation of more printing machines made it possible to quickly make multiple copies of visual representations. Painters like Raja Ravi Varma created images for widespread distribution. Print shops hired wood engravers to create woodblocks, who set up shops close to letterpresses. Even the poor could purchase inexpensive prints and calendars from the bazaar to adorn the walls of their houses or places of employment. With the help of these prints, concepts about modernity and tradition, religion and politics, and society and culture started to take shape.

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