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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McAleer, John, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

East India Company--History--In art.

East India Company.

Art, British.

Art, British--19th century.

Art, British--18th century.

India.

India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947--In art.

India--History--In art.

Genre:

History

Art

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 pages)

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2017]

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.

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780295744506

0295744502

OCLC:

1504487259