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Eid Mubarak: Cross-cultural Image Exchange in Muslim South Asia
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
Maharajahs in Postcards
by Liz MckendrickModern India is said to have been born in 1858, after the famous Mutiny. From this time onwards the government was transferred from the British East India Company to direct Crown Rule with Lord Canning being appointed as the first Viceroy and Governor General.Read more
Fantasizing the Mughals and Popular Perceptions of the Taj Mahal
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.Bioscope: South Asian Screen Studies
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 moreShimla in Old Postcards
by Liz MckendrickThe British occupation of India lasted just under two hundred years, and by the beginning of the last century, life there was being recorded on postcards to be sent by the thousand back home to England.Read more
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Pioneers of Indian Photography
A detailed essay by one of the most important scholars of British Indian photography and longtime curator of the photograph collection at the India Office Library, John Falconer. The essay very nicely summarizes early photographic activity in India, and offers footnotes and references to make its case.Read more
