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About Swaraj

Established in 2013, Swaraj is an archive created to document, preserve and showcase the art of Mr. Vijay Kumar Aggarwal’s family collection.

Mr. Aggarwal inherited the passion of collecting from his father, Seth Jai Prakash, who built an impressive collection of Kalighats, Bengal School paintings, and a wide range of British Indian prints during his lifetime. The collection also included some rare vintage China and cut glass, old wooden artefacts and antique furniture, all of which was acquired during Seth Jai Prakash’s frequent visits to Calcutta. Over the years, a large number of the collectibles which were housed in the various hotels and residencies bought by Seth Mukund Lal and Seth Jai Prakash in Mussoorie, Dehradun, Bombay, Calcutta and Ghaziabad were handed over to Mr. Aggarwal for the archive.

A patron of the arts for over 40 years, Mr. Aggarwal has silently pursued his passion for the visual medium through his travels and life spent in India and overseas. His former years from 1960 to 1965 were spent in the US where he studied at Columbia University and then worked as a project engineer. It was during this time that he was first exposed to international art. This was followed by a 20-year stint with Marc Rich (renamed Glencore), an international commodity trading firm with offices in over 40 countries.

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