Visualizing Indian Women 1875-1947
A superb book, with close readings of images loaded with history and crisp observations. Karlekar really knows how to decode photographic gestures. The richness of imagery still available, in this case from private collections all over India, is amazing.
More could have been about the "nautch girl," the most popular image type of women during this period. There are also more images of poor women in the vast collective than these images would suggest, which as the author states, are primarily of middle and upper class women.
Particularly interesting are the images of Princess Abida Sultaan of Bhopal, one of the most amazing figures of pre-partition India and Pakistan.
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boxwallah
s. Hybrid H. Bakas- (i.e. box) wālā. A native itinerant pedlar, or packman, as he would be called in Scotland by an analogous term. The Boxwālā sells cutlery, cheap nick-nacks, and small wares of all kinds, chiefly European.