Art and Nationalism in Colonial India
Although not directly concerned with photography, its scope is all the other visual arts around photography, and it is an incredibly well-written and researched account of some of the most interesting time in Indian visual history.
'This book will stand as a major contribution to art history. It provides the first comprehensive analysis of the development of modern art in India after the decline of the traditional schools of miniature painting ... (the) text is closely related to the 200 photographs, many in colour, which illustrate this handsome volume.' The Times Literary Supplement
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"This sumptuous book is as fascinating to read as it is to look at." Journal of Asian History
"This book will stand as a major contribution to art history. It provides the first comprehensive analysis of the development of modern art in India after the decline of the traditional schools of miniature painting alongside the general demise of Indian court patronage in the early nineteenth century...Its great strength does, indeed, lie in the human and artistic detail which he supplies about the dozens of greater and lesser artists whose path he chronicles. And his text is closely related to the 200 photographs, many in colour, which illustrate this handsome volume." C.A. Bayly, Times Literary Supplement
"The central theme of the discourse is effectively presented: Does the adaptation from foreign models imposed by colonial rule stimulate the colonized to confront and discover their own identity?" Choice
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s. A group of coral islands forming a ring or chaplet, sometimes of many miles in diameter, inclosing a space of comparatively shallow water, each of the islands being on the same type as the atoll. We derive the expression from the Maldive islands, which are the typical examples of this structure, and where the form of the word is atoḷu.