by Yousaf Saeed

"In the 1970s and 1980s, a few days before the festivals of Eid ul-Fitr and Eid ul-Zuha, I regularly visited the Urdu bazaar opposite Jama Masjid in old Delhi with my parents to buy visually attractive Eid cards, then wrote short messages of greetings and salutations for friends and relatives residing in other towns, and dropped these into the nearby post box.Read more

A fascinating survey of Taj imagery by one of the foremost South Asian scholars in the US, Catharine B. Asher on Tasveerghar, traces the development of this image into an iconic representation of India.

An exciting new journal that covers early South Asian film and other visual media like bazaar lantern shows was recently launched. Contributors include major academics like Christopher Pinney. Articles cover everything from Telugu to Pakistani and Bangladeshi cinema.Read more

by Shashwati Talukdar

"The colonial postcard [was] particularly well suited to encode the project of empire," writes the author, who then goes on to explore how hillstation postcards were used to tame the Himalayas.

Another interesting, nicely illustrated by means of a separate slide show, essay from Tasveerghar, the Delhi publishing research archive.

The evolution of the photo studio in 19th-century India

An newspaper feature article by Malaveka Karlekar, author of many books on 19th century photography in India including Re-visioning the Past: Early Photography in Bengal 1875-1915 . She explores themes around the formation of photography studios in India and how they impacted the local population.Read more

This detailed investigation of photography and its role in British Indian archaeology by Dr. Sudeshna Guha was first delivered as a lecture at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. Recently revised, it covers the intersection of archaeology, politics, scholarship and the use of visual investigations in constructing theories of the past.Read more

Imperial Vision: Photography in British India 1857-1900, an essay by N. Sachdeva, is a historical overview followed by a detailed bibliography of catalogs, books and original 19th century materials in which photographic materials appeared. A valuable source of information in one place.Read more

An article is a PDF or Word document or set of web pages that describe new research or information in the field of Raj photography or vintage imagery from roughly 1848 through 1947. Conquest through independence. Use the Create Content button, the Create Article.Read more