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Picturing India : people, places and the world of the East India Company

Title

Picturing India : people, places and the world of the East India Company / John McAleer.

Author

McAleer, John

Publication

London : The British Library, 2017.
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Description

217 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color), map (some color); 29 cm

Summary

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.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: The East India Company and British views of India -- Politics, power and port cities -- Places -- People and portraits -- Patronage -- Conclusion: The end of the Company.

ISBN

9780712356954
0712356959

LCCN

2017431938

OCLC

ocn984605404
984605404
SCSB-8807412

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library