Beatos Delhi

Author : Jim Masselos
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9351181995
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beato's Delhi written by Jim Masselos and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-12-07 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beato’s Delhi offers a pictorial history of Delhi, brought vividly to life through the visual virtuosity of Felice A. Beato, the famous nineteenth-century photographer who came to India to record the last embers of the 1857 ‘Mutiny’, and Jim Masselos who, in 1997, retraced Beato’s footsteps and photographed the same sites as far as possible. By the time Beato reached Delhi in January 1858, the British had already subdued the city, so he could not record the military campaign itself. However, his lens was perhaps the first to capture the battleground and other places of note in that campaign, providing for posterity some unique views of Old Delhi before substantial parts of it were demolished in the aftermath of 1857, or radically redeveloped as the years progressed. Beato’s luminous views are juxtaposed with Masselos’s present-day photographs of the bustling metropolis, shedding light on how the face of Delhi has transformed in the intervening 154 years. Supplemented with an illuminating text by Masselos and Narayani Gupta, Beato’s Delhi is a moving testament to the resilience of this ever-evolving city.

Author : Jim Masselos
Publisher : Universities Press
ISBN 13 : 9788175300286
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beato's Delhi 1857, 1957 written by Jim Masselos and published by Universities Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes reproductions of Felice Beato's photographs taken during the mid-19th century.

Author : Anne Lacoste
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 160606035X
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Felice Beato written by Anne Lacoste and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating life and work of an artist who captured some of the first photographs of the Far East are presented in this gorgeous volume.

Author : Rosie Llewellyn-Jones
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843833042
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Uprising in India, 1857-58 written by Rosie Llewellyn-Jones and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2007 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A volume in the Worlds of the East India Company series, edited by Huw Bowen The events of 1857-58 in India are seen here through a series of untold stories which show that they were much more complex than hitherto thought. Drawing on sources in Britain and India, including contemporary East India Company records, together with oral memories from India illustrated with a number of nineteenth century photographs, the author tells of the murder of the British Resident in the princely state of Kotah; of Indians who opposed the Mutiny, and suffered at the hands of the "mutineers"; of a small, but significant, number of Europeans who fought with the Indians against the British; and of the infamous "prize agents" of the East India Company - licensed looters whose rapacity seemed limitless. The book conveys vividly what it was like for different kinds of participants to live through these traumatic events, bringing to life their anxiety and desperation, the grisly bloodshed, and the vast devastation - illustrating overall, as one Indian soldier who served in the East India Company's army put it, "the wind of madness". Dr ROSIE LLEWELLYN-JONES is author and editor of numerous books on India, including The Nawabs, the British and the City of Lucknow (1985) and Portraits of the Indian Princes (forthcoming).

Author : Mrinalini Rajagopalan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022633189X
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building Histories written by Mrinalini Rajagopalan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building Histories offers innovative accounts of five medieval monuments in Delhi—the Red Fort, Rasul Numa Dargah, Jama Masjid, Purana Qila, and the Qutb complex—tracing their modern lives from the nineteenth century into the twentieth. Mrinalini Rajagopalan argues that the modern construction of the history of these monuments entailed the careful selection, manipulation, and regulation of the past by both the colonial and later postcolonial states. Although framed as objective “archival” truths, these histories were meant to erase or marginalize the powerful and persistent affective appropriations of the monuments by groups who often existed outside the center of power. By analyzing these archival and affective histories together, Rajagopalan works to redefine the historic monument—far from a symbol of a specific past, the monument is shown in Building Histories to be a culturally mutable object with multiple stories to tell.

Author : Dana Leibsohn
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9781409411895
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seeing Across Cultures in the Early Modern World written by Dana Leibsohn and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What were the possibilities and limits of vision in the early modern world? Drawing upon experiences forged in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, Seeing Across Cultures shows how distinctive ways of habituating the eyes in the early modern period had profound implications-in the realm of politics, daily practice and the imaginary. Beyond their interest in visual culture, the essays here expand our understanding of transcultural encounters and the history of vision.

Author : John MacKenzie
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300260784
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Cultural History of the British Empire written by John MacKenzie and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling history of British imperial culture, showing how it was adopted and subverted by colonial subjects around the world As the British Empire expanded across the globe, it exported more than troops and goods. In every colony, imperial delegates dispersed British cultural forms. Facilitated by the rapid growth of print, photography, film, and radio, imperialists imagined this new global culture would cement the unity of the empire. But this remarkably wide-ranging spread of ideas had unintended and surprising results. In this groundbreaking history, John M. MacKenzie examines the importance of culture in British imperialism. MacKenzie describes how colonized peoples were quick to observe British culture--and adapted elements to their own ends, subverting British expectations and eventually beating them at their own game. As indigenous communities integrated their own cultures with the British imports, the empire itself was increasingly undermined. From the extraordinary spread of cricket and horse racing to statues and ceremonies, MacKenzie presents an engaging imperial history--one with profound implications for global culture in the present day.

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Publisher : PediaPress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 717 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japan written by and published by PediaPress. This book was released on with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Geeti Sen
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
ISBN 13 : 9788125020455
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Human Landscape written by Geeti Sen and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2001 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Is Located Within The Contemporary Discourse Of Human Geography, Ecology ,And The Cultural Landscape. These Essays Amend Earlier Anthropocentric Perspectives On The Conquest Of Nature, By Placing People In Symbiosis With Their Environment. And, In Doing So, They Seek To Ensure A Secure Common Future For Both.

Author : Deborah S. Hutton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315456044
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Place in South Asian and Islamic Art, 1500-Present written by Deborah S. Hutton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 10 Useful but dangerous: photography and the Madras School of Art, 1850-73 -- 11 Temporal transformations: terracotta and trash -- Index