India by design : colonial history and cultural display
Mathur, Saloni
India by design : colonial history and cultural display Book - Berkeley University of California Press 2007 - xi,219,ip.
CONTENTS List of Figures vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Colonial Patterns, Indian Styles 1 1. The Indian Village in Victorian Space : The Department Store and the Cult of the Craftsman 27 2. The Visit the Queen : On Display at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition of I886 52 3. The Discrepant Portraiture of Empire : Oil Painting in a Global Field 80 4. Collecting Colonial Postcards : Gender and the Visual Archive 109 5. A Parable of Postcolonial Return : Museums and the Discourse of Restitution 133 Epilogue. Historical Afterimages 165 Notes 171 Bibliography 197 Index 211
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India by design : colonial history and cultural display Book - Berkeley University of California Press 2007 - xi,219,ip.
CONTENTS List of Figures vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Colonial Patterns, Indian Styles 1 1. The Indian Village in Victorian Space : The Department Store and the Cult of the Craftsman 27 2. The Visit the Queen : On Display at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition of I886 52 3. The Discrepant Portraiture of Empire : Oil Painting in a Global Field 80 4. Collecting Colonial Postcards : Gender and the Visual Archive 109 5. A Parable of Postcolonial Return : Museums and the Discourse of Restitution 133 Epilogue. Historical Afterimages 165 Notes 171 Bibliography 197 Index 211
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745.409 / MAT