Picturing India
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Author | : John McAleer |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2017-10-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0295744502 |
The British engagement with India was an intensely visual one. Images of the subcontinent, produced by artists and travelers in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century heyday of the East India Company, reflect the increasingly important role played by the Company in Indian life. And they mirror significant shifts in British policy and attitudes toward India. The Company’s story is one of wealth, power, and the pursuit of profit. It changed what people in Europe ate, what they drank, and how they dressed. Ultimately, it laid the foundations of the British Raj. Few historians have considered the visual sources that survive and what they tell us about the link between images and empire, pictures and power. This book draws on the unrivalled riches of the British Library—both visual and textual—to tell that history. It weaves together the story of individual images, their creators, and the people and events they depict. And, in doing so, it presents a detailed picture of the Company and its complex relationship with India, its people and cultures.
Author | : John McAleer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2017-07-31 |
Genre | : Art, British |
ISBN | : 9780295742939 |
The British engagement with India was an intensely visual one. Images of the subcontinent, produced by artists and travellers in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century heyday of the East India Company, reflect the role it played in Indian life. They mirror significant shifts in British policy and attitudes towards India. The Company's story is one of wealth, power, and the pursuit of profit. It changed what people in Europe ate, what they drank, and how they dressed. Ultimately, it laid the foundations of the British Raj. But few historians have considered the visual sources that survive and their implications for the link between images and empire, pictures and power. This book draws on the unrivalled riches of the British Library, telling the story of individual images, their creators, and the people and places they depict. It will present a detailed picture of the Company and its complex relationship with India, its people and cultures.
Author | : Robert Mudie |
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Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 1830 |
Genre | : India |
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Author | : Robert Mudie |
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Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 1830 |
Genre | : India |
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Author | : Robert Mudie |
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Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 1832 |
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Author | : Lee Engfer |
Publisher | : Twenty-First Century Books |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 2002-06-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780822503712 |
Text and illustrations present detailed information on the geography, history and government, economy, people, cultural life and society of traditional and modern India.
Author | : Beth Fowkes Tobin |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780822323389 |
An interdisciplinary study of visual representations of British colonial power in the eighteenth century.
Author | : Rachel Fell McDermott |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 023112919X |
Annually during the months of autumn, Bengal hosts three interlinked festivals to honor its most important goddesses: Durga, Kali, and Jagaddhatri. While each of these deities possesses a distinct iconography, myth, and character, they are all martial. Durga, Kali, and Jagaddhatri often demand blood sacrifice as part of their worship and offer material and spiritual benefits to their votaries. Richly represented in straw, clay, paint, and decoration, they are similarly displayed in elaborately festooned temples, thronged by thousands of admirers. The first book to recount the history of these festivals and their revelry, rivalry, and nostalgic power, this volume marks an unprecedented achievement in the mapping of a major public event. Rachel Fell McDermott describes the festivals' origins and growth under British rule. She identifies their iconographic conventions and carnivalesque qualities and their relationship to the fierce, Tantric sides of ritual practice. McDermott confronts controversies over the tradition of blood sacrifice and the status-seekers who compete for symbolic capital. Expanding her narrative, she takes readers beyond Bengal's borders to trace the transformation of the goddesses and their festivals across the world. McDermott's work underscores the role of holidays in cultural memory, specifically the Bengali evocation of an ideal, culturally rich past. Under the thrall of the goddess, the social, political, economic, and religious identity of Bengalis takes shape.
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Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Motion pictures |
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Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : India |
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Photographs and text introduce the geography, history, government, society, and economy of this diverse nation.