Author: Virgil Miedema
Publisher: Amur Maple Books, 2002
Binding: Hardcover, 210 pages

One wishes many more such books existed, covering all the hillstations in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Full of excellent photographs by Craddock, Burke, Thomas Winter, as well as color engravings and postcards of the biggest of the Raj hillstations in Pakistan, the entire work is tasteful and informative.Read more

Another princely India volume makes one wonder when an album of unknown Indians from the 19th century will be published. An album of assorted types without name, pedigree and other enticements for a photographer, no chance of controlling the outcome.Read more

A nice collection of photographs, many by John Burke of the Second Afghan War, from a prominent British Indian family collection. Full of interesting biographical facts and images.Read more

A Series of Photographic Illustrations, with Descriptive Letterpress, of the Races and Tribes of Hindustan

Compiled and Edited by J. Forbes Watson & J. W. Kaye.

This work, originally commissioned by the Government of India, is one of the great photographic books of the Nineteenth Century.Read more

This slim and beautiful catalogue is packed with 60 extraordinary full-page images. They reveal something of the specific genius of Indian photography: colorization.Read more

A well illustrated history of polo, full of historic game images not found in other collections. As with its book on The Maharajahs, Roli Books shows how a well-produced thematic collection can bring a whole series of images long forgotten in archives to contemporary audiences.Read more

Sepia Prints: Memoirs of a Missionary by Viola Wiebe and Marilyn Wiebe Dodge is one of the few books to highlight the large amount of photographic material available from Christian archives and missionaries active in colonial India.Read more

An exceptional set of photographs new to research in the history of Indian photography and full of hand-colored exemplars.

"The Unforgettable Maharajas transports the reader back in time through 150 years of Indian royalty. Fairytale childhoods, magnificent palaces and forts, luxurious lifestyles, princely pastimesRead more

Author: Russell Harris
Publisher: Roli Books Pvt Ltd (2002)
Binding: Paperback, 16 pages
This book records the history of the Lafayette Studio of London, and its contribution in portraying the princes of India. It details its ups and downs, and eventual retrieval of its treasures. Besides a short text, the books carries 24 princely portraits.Read more

Though photography reaches as far back as the sixteenth-century’s camera obscura projects, it wasn’t until the British colonial period that amateur photographers introduced their technology to the Indian subcontinent. By the end of the nineteenth century, however, India was at the center of a representational revolution.Read more