chatterjee apurba (6 Ergebnisse)

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1st edn. 8vo. Original laminated pictorial boards (Fine). Pp. xix + 361, with b&w illus (no inscriptions).

Zustand: New.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - How did Britons come to see themselves as fit to govern India An Empire of Images focuses on the visual arts as central to the making of political legitimacy during the long eighteenth century. Through images by both British and Indian artists, this book explores how peoples, landscapes, flora, and fauna in India became part of an imperial self-image. Torn between open triumphalism and anxious contingency, British artists and patrons sought to dissect India's mysteries and justify East India Company rule under the Crown. Meanwhile, Indian artists interpreted the realities of British hegemony in terms of both their native cultural resources and modes introduced by the colonizer. Tracing an emerging imperial ideology on canvas and in prints, as well as the pages of official archives and personal papers, this book offers new insights into reconfigurations of power in a period of European expansion in Asia. As Chatterjee argues, early colonial India became a site for contestation around British visual ascendancy, which must complicate our own understandings of honour, guilt, knowledge, and belonging.

Zustand: New. 2025. hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book centres on the question of how visuality projected ideologies of the British Indian Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century. How did hierarchies of race, class, and gender come to be formulated and instantiated in images What do images reveal about British dominance over Indian landscapes and the natural environment How and why did visual languages of imperialism change over time For British artists and patrons, the chief task was that of knowing India and validating the political system promulgated by the EIC and the British Crown. Indian artists faced the task of interpreting the realities of British political ascendancy in terms of both the cultural modes at their disposal and ones introduced by the coloniser. Beyond the postcolonial constructs of dominance and resistance, early British India was thus fraught with a struggle for visual ascendancy that complicate our understandings of honour, guilt, knowledge, belonging, and commemoration.