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Book Synopsis British Drawings in the India Office Library by : India Office Library
Download or read book British Drawings in the India Office Library written by India Office Library and published by British Library. This book was released on 1969 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The catalogue of British drawings in the India Office Library by Mildred Archer, published in two volumes in 1969, covered nearly 11,000 works, and revealed the riches of a collection that is a valuable visual resource for all aspects of life during the British period in South Asia. The present volume provides a detailed listing of all the drawings acquired since 1969, a total of 5500 representing over 300 individuals, including additional works by artists of the stature of William and Thomas Daniell, Thomas Hickey and George Chinnery, important drawings by William Simpson and Joseph D'Arcy, together with a large number of artists not previously represented in the collection - soldiers, civil servants, and their wives and daughters - whose work ranges from important early topographical studies to humorous sketches of everyday life. More than 60 drawings are reproduced in monochrome.
Book Synopsis British Drawings in the India Office Library: Amateur artists by : India Office Library
Download or read book British Drawings in the India Office Library: Amateur artists written by India Office Library and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis British drawings in the India Office Library. 1. Amateur artists by : Mildred Archer
Download or read book British drawings in the India Office Library. 1. Amateur artists written by Mildred Archer and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Spatial Imaginings in the Age of Colonial Cartographic Reason by : Nilanjana Mukherjee
Download or read book Spatial Imaginings in the Age of Colonial Cartographic Reason written by Nilanjana Mukherjee and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-05-18 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores how India as a geographical space was constructed by the British colonial regime in visual and material terms. It demonstrates the instrumentalisation of cultural artefacts such as landscape paintings, travel literature and cartography, as spatial practices overtly carrying scientific truth claims, to materially produce artificial spaces that reinforced power relations. It sheds light on the primary dominance of cartographic reason in the age of European Enlightenment which framed aesthetic and scientific modes of representation and imagination. The author cross-examines this imperial gaze as a visual perspective which bore the material inscriptions of a will to assert, possess and control. The distinguishing theme in this study is the production of India as a new geography sourced from Britain's own interaction with its rural outskirts and domination in its fringes. This book: Addresses the concept of "production of space" to study the formulation of a colonial geography which resulted in the birth of a new place, later a nation; Investigates a generative period in the formation of British India c. 1750–1850 as a colonial territory vis-à-vis its representation and reiteration in British maps, landscape paintings and travel writings; Brings Great Britain and British India together on one plane not only in terms of the physical geo-spaces but also in the excavation of critical domains by alluding to critics from both spaces; Seeks to understand the pictorial grammar that legitimised the expansive British imperial cartographic gaze as the dominant narrative which marginalised all other existing local ideas of space and inhabitation. Rethinking colonial constructions of modern India, this volume will be of immense interest to scholars and researchers of modern history, cultural geography, colonial studies, English literature, cultural studies, art, visual studies and area studies.
Book Synopsis The Anglo-Florentines by : Diana Webb
Download or read book The Anglo-Florentines written by Diana Webb and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-26 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the variety of Britons who became residents of Florence between the end of the Napoleonic wars and the absorption of Tuscany into the kingdom of Italy. Many of them were leisured, and some aristocratic; a few were writers or artists; the British clergy and physicians who ministered to them were gentlemen. Many others were shopkeepers, merchants and even engineers. Some achieved a more profound knowledge of the country (and its language) than others, but all were affected to some degree by the momentous events which led to Italian unification.
Book Synopsis Architecture of Sovereignty by : Gita V. Pai
Download or read book Architecture of Sovereignty written by Gita V. Pai and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative study, Gita V. Pai traces the history of the Pudu Mandapam (Tamil, 'new hall') – a Hindu temple structure in Madurai – through the rise and fall of empires in south India from the seventeenth century to the present. This wide-ranging work illustrates how south Indian temples became entangled in broader conflicts over sovereignty, from early modern Nayaka kings, to British colonial rule, to the post-independence government today. Drawing from methodologies in anthropology, religious studies, and art and architectural history, the author argues that the small temple site provides profound insight into the relationship between aesthetics, sovereignty, and religion in modern South Asia.
Book Synopsis From Merchants to Emperors by : Pratapaditya Pal
Download or read book From Merchants to Emperors written by Pratapaditya Pal and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, the British established a presence in India that was to last over three centuries. Throughout these years of British control, exciting moments of discovery occurred as the two cultures met and interacted.
Book Synopsis Colonial Urban Development by : Anthony D. King
Download or read book Colonial Urban Development written by Anthony D. King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Study focuses on the social and, more especially, the cultural processes governing colonial urban development and develops a theory and methodology to do this. The author demonstrates how the physical and spatial arrangements characterizing urban development are unique products of a particular society, to be understood only in terms of its values, behaviour and institutions and the distribution of social and political power within it. Nowhere is this more apparent than in 'colonial cities' of Asia and Africa where the environmental assumptions of a dominant, industrializing Western power were introduced to largely 'pre-industrial' societies. Anthony King draws his material primarily from these areas, and includes a case study of the development of colonial Delhi from the early nineteenth century to 1947. Yet, as the author explains, the problems of how cultural social and political factors influence the nature of environments and how these in turn affect social processes and behaviour, are of global significance. This book was first published in 1976.
Download or read book Iran and The West written by Cyrus Ghani and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1987, this volume offers a bibliography of biographies, autobiographies and books on contemporary politics by prominent 20th century figures on the topic of Iran.
Book Synopsis British Drawings in the India Office Library: Official and professional artists by : India Office Library
Download or read book British Drawings in the India Office Library: Official and professional artists written by India Office Library and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Imperial Boredom by : Jeffrey A. Auerbach
Download or read book Imperial Boredom written by Jeffrey A. Auerbach and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imperial Boredom offers a radical reconsideration of the British Empire during its heyday in the nineteenth century. Challenging the long-established view that that the Empire was about adventure and excitement, with heroic men and intrepid women settling new lands and spreading commerce and civilization around the globe, this thoroughly researched, engagingly written, and lavishly illustrated analysis instead argues that boredom was central to the experience of Empire. This volume looks at what it was actually like to sail to Australia, to serve as a soldier in South Africa, or to accompany a colonial official to the hill stations of India, and agrues that for numerous men and women, from governors to convicts, explorers to tourists, the Victorian Empire was dull and disappointing. Drawing on diaries, letters, memoirs, and travelogues, it demonstrates that all across the empire, men and women found the landscapes monotonous, the physical and psychological distance from home debilitating, the routines of everyday life wearisome, and their work unfulfilling. Ocean voyages were tedious; colonial rule was bureaucratic; warfare was infrequent; economic opportunity was limited; and indigenous people were largely invisible. The seventeenth-century Empire may have been about wonder and marvel, but the Victorian Empire was a far less exciting project.
Book Synopsis Indian Painting for the British, 1770-1880 by : Mildred Archer
Download or read book Indian Painting for the British, 1770-1880 written by Mildred Archer and published by [London] : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1955 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Harvard University Fine Arts Library, the Fogg Art Museum by : Harvard University. Fine Arts Library
Download or read book Catalogue of the Harvard University Fine Arts Library, the Fogg Art Museum written by Harvard University. Fine Arts Library and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis British and Irish Library Resources by : Robert Bingham Downs
Download or read book British and Irish Library Resources written by Robert Bingham Downs and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Christian Art in India by : John Francis Butler
Download or read book Christian Art in India written by John Francis Butler and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Painting in the Punjab Plains by : Musarrat Hasan
Download or read book Painting in the Punjab Plains written by Musarrat Hasan and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Colonial Self-Fashioning in British India, c. 1785-1845 by : Prasannajit de Silva
Download or read book Colonial Self-Fashioning in British India, c. 1785-1845 written by Prasannajit de Silva and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stereotypical view of the nineteenth-century British in India, which might be characterised as one of deliberate isolation and segregation from their surroundings, has recently been complemented by one evoking a high degree of integration and closer co-existence in the eighteenth century. Focusing on a period which straddles this apparent shift, this book explores a variety of ways in which British residents in India represented their lives through visual material, and reveals a more nuanced position. Consideration of these images, which have often been overlooked in the scholarly literature, opens up questions of identity facing the British population in India at this time and facing colonial societies more generally, and issues about the role of visual culture in negotiating them. It also underlines the fragile and contested nature of identity: the colonists’ self-fashioning encompassed not only expressions of difference from their Indian setting, but also what distinguished them from their compatriots back in Britain, as well as engaging with metropolitan attitudes towards, and prejudices about, them.
