| Description |
1 online resource (217 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), map (some color) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
East India Company -- History -- In art.
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East India Company. |
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History. |
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British Occupation of India (India : 1765-1947) |
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British Library. |
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East India Company London. |
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India -- History -- In art.
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India. |
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India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947 -- In art.
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Art, British -- 18th century.
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Art, British. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
Art, British -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Art.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: McAleer, John. Picturing India. Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2017] 9780295742939 (OCoLC)1002210929 |
| ISBN |
9780295744506 (electronic book) |
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0295744502 (electronic book) |
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9780295742939 |
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0295742933 |
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