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FABRI, CHARLES, Indian Flamingo - A Novel of Modern India, London, Victor Gollancz, 1947.
A rare novel written on and dedicated to Amrita Sher-Gil by an eminent Hungarian Indologist who had settled in India. The protagonist is a twenty-three year old female artist named Padma Mitra and her suitor is John, an English museum director who falls in love with her. The story is not far from the facts as Fabri (1889 - 1968) was himself in love with Sher-Gil, despite the twenty-four year age gap between the two. The novel is set in 1937 Lahore when Sher-Gil was twenty-four and Fabri was Officer on Special Duty at the Lahore Museum.

FABRI, Charles Louis (Károly Lajos Fábri). Budapest 18.11.1899 — Delhi 7.7.1968. Hungarian Archaeologist and Art Historian in India. Born in a wealthy middle class Jewish family, grew up in Budapest. His father owned a hotel, but lost the fortune during the WW I. After war service, six years of studies of philosophy, psychology and Germanic philology at Pécs University. He was already then interested in the East (member of D.M.G.). M.A. 1924, Ph.D. 1927 Pécs, in philosophy (diss. in William Jones). The family moved to Fiume, Italy (now Rijeka in Croatia, but before the WW I part of Hungary) and from there CLF proceeded to Netherlands in 1927 and studied at Kern Institute in Leiden under Vogel. Also studies under Lévi in Paris. He became Assistant of Vogel and worked on the ABIA until 1933. In 1931 he was in India in order to work as an assistant of M. A. Stein (with him in the Punjab and Baluchistan). In 1934 moved permanently to India, first taught at Santiniketan. He was then special officer of A.S.I., in 1936-37 in Lahore Museum. Leaving A.S.I. in 1938/39 he became Field Director of Punjab Exploration Fund and conducted excavations on several sites. Travelled much in India. As British citizen from 1937 (or 1939) he served in the WW II. After the war in 1945 he became Curator of Lahore Museum, but in December 1947 had to move to Delhi. Now National Museum Lecturer in New Delhi in 1947-48. He also started writing art critique for The Statesman and this soon became his main occupation. In 1950-55 (or 1959) he was also Lecturer at Architecture and Art Departments of Delhi Polytechnic. He travelled around India and visited Europe twice, in 1959 and 1963. Last years lived in Delhi as free author and art critic. Died in cancer. Married 1947 with an Indian lady, Rana Mathur, a paintress, one son. Apparently several major works on Indian art history remained manuscript.