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  • Re-visioning the Past: Early Photography in Bengal 1875-1915

    Re-visioning the Past: Early Photography in Bengal 1875-1915
    Author: Malavika Karlekar
    Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (2005)
    Binding: Paperback, 208 pages

    While initial chapters recount well known early Indian photographic history, the next ones comprise an intelligent and thought-provoking analysis of photography in Bengal and the role it played in mediating cultural relations between colonizers and the emerging Bengali middle and upper classes.Read more

  • Shadows of Empire

    Shadows of Empire
    Author: Alan McKee
    Publisher: Hudson House Victorian Mysteries (2010)
    Binding: Paperback, 472 pages

    An inventive novel, combining past and present, mystery and romance around the infamous Cawnpur Massacre. Aptly spiced with archival photographs. Part of the author's entertaining Hudson House Mystery series.Read more

  • Connecting Histories in Afghanistan

    peshawar Marketplace
    Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
    by Shah Mahmoud Hanifi
    Columbia University Press e-book, 2008

    There are two unusual things about this work.Read more

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  • Lucknow: City of Illusion

    Lucknow City of Illusion
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    Publisher: Prestel Publishing (2006)
    Binding: Hardcover, 295 pages

    A gorgeous book on 19th century photography, about the most well-photographed and interesting city that became part of British India and the geographic heart of Raj photography. The book features superb essays and spectacular photogems by Felix Beato, John Sache and other photographers of the period.Read more

  • Reverie and Reality

    Reverie and Reality: Nineteenth-Century Photographs of India from the Ehrenfeld Collection
    Author: Sophie Gordon, Omar Khan, John Falconer
    Publisher: Fine Arts Museum Of San Francisco (2006)
    Binding: Hardcover, 188 pages

    Since its invention in the 1840s, photography has been used to record images of exotic locales. At the time, these photographs provided a glimpse of the world to a curious public, few of whom could ever hope to visit those places. In Reality and Reverie, a visual history of nineteenth-century India unfolds in an exhibition of 112 vintage photographs,Read more