ISBN:
9780712356954
,
0712356959
Language:
English
Pages:
217 pages
,
Illustrationen, Karten
,
29 cm
DDC:
704.9/49954
Keywords:
East India Company History
;
In art
;
Art, British 18th century
;
Art, British 19th century
;
Art, British
;
East India Company
;
India
;
India History
;
In art
;
India History British occupation, 1765-1947
;
In art
;
Großbritannien
;
Indien
;
East India Company
;
Kulturaustausch
;
Kunst
;
Indien
;
Indienbild
;
Geschichte 1770-1880
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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