![]() The Mayo School gave birth to the most celebrated Indian art historical publication in the world, the Journal of Indian Art and Industry. Established by Rudyard Kipling's father Lockwood Kipling, the school had on its staff some of the most renowned names in the Indian art world, such as Ram Singh, Percy Brown, Lionel Heath, S. One of the last of the four colonial art schools established in India, the others being in Calcutta, Bombay and Madras, the Mayo School of Arts was founded in 1875 to perpetuate the memory of the Lord Earl of Mayo, the only Indian Viceroy to be murdered while in office. ![]() Lahore's Mayo School of Arts, as the National College of Arts (NCA) was called then, was Pakistan’s equivalent of London's South Kensington School of Design (presently Royal College of Art, UK).
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