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Unmaking the East India Company : British art and political reform in colonial India, c. 1813-1858
- Title
- Unmaking the East India Company : British art and political reform in colonial India, c. 1813-1858 / Tom Young.
- Author
- Young, Tom
- Publication
- London : Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2023.
- New Haven ; London : Yale University Press
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- Description
- vii, 246 pages : color illustrations; 28 cm
- Summary
- This pioneering book explores how art shaped the nationalisation of the East India Company between the loss of its primary monopoly in 1813 and its ultimate liquidation in 1858. Challenging the idea that parliament drove political reform, it argues instead that the Company's political legitimacy was destabilised by novel modes of artistic production in colonial India. New artistic forms and practices the result of new technologies like lithography and steam navigation, middle-class print formats like the periodical, the scrapbook and the literary annual, as well as the prevalence of amateur sketching among Company employees' reconfigured the colonial regime's racial boundaries and techniques of governance. They flourished within transimperial networks, integrating middle-class societies with new political convictions and moral disciplines, and thereby eroding the aristocratic corporate cultures that had previously structured colonial authority in India. 'Unmaking the East India Company' contributes to a reassessment of British art as a global, corporate and intrinsically imperial phenomenonhighlighting the role of overlooked media, artistic styles and print formats in crafting those distinctions of power and identity that defined Britishness across the world.
- Alternative Title
- British art and political reform in colonial India, c. 1813-1858
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-238) and index.
- Contents
- A corporate history of British amateurism: Lithographic scrapbooking, Anglicist reform and opium's spectre, c.1813-1833 -- The many faces of modernity: Lithography, race and colonial revenue reform, c.1813-1833 -- Colesworthy Grant's portraits of colonial society: Periodical illustration and liberal reform, c.1833-1857 -- Company twilight and the Raj foreshadowed: Frontier art, the Victorian monarchy and the rejection of bureaucratic reform, c.1831-1858 -- Conclusion: A coda from Tapna: Opium, reform, insurgency.
- Call Number
- JQF 24-297
- ISBN
- 9781913107390
- 1913107396
- LCCN
- 2022949508
- OCLC
- 1371246138
- Author
- Young, Tom, author. Author
- Title
- Unmaking the East India Company : British art and political reform in colonial India, c. 1813-1858 / Tom Young.
- Publisher
- London : Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2023.
- Distributor
- New Haven ; London : Yale University Press
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-238) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1765-1947
- Chronological Term
- 1700-1947
- Research Call Number
- JQF 24-297