Answer:
The objective of the European painters behind making a contrast between the British and the Indian lifestyle was to portray the following features: (i) Indian lifestyle was pre-modern, changeless and motionless typified by faqirs, cows and boats sailing on the river. (ii) British lifestyle was a modern civilization that exerted a modernizing influence on Indian civilization. (iii) This was done with the paintings that showed dramatic changes in India from being a traditional culture to a modernized one as a result of the modernizing influence of the British rule.
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