Ravi Varma and his brother C. Raja Raja Varma arrived in Hyderabad at the invitation of celebrated photographer Raja Deen Dayal, who assured them of an audience with the Nizam of Hyderabad. But it was an experience unlike any other as the brothers were made to wait for weeks and denied a meeting with the immensely wealthy Mahbub Ali Khan Asaf, Ravi Varma, however, set to work and completed the portrait based on a photograph provided by Dean Dayal.
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