British Indian Picture Postcards In Bengaluru

Author : Emily Stevenson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003809596
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Indian Picture Postcards in Bengaluru written by Emily Stevenson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-18 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining ethnographic and archival research, this book examines the lives of colonial-period postcards and reveals how they become objects of contemporary historical imagination in India. Picture postcards were circulated around the world in their billions in the early twentieth century and remained, until the advent of social media, unmatched as the primary means of sharing images alongside personal messages. This book, based on original research in Bengaluru, shows that their lives stretch from their initial production and consumption in the early 1900s into the present where they act as visual and material mediators in postcolonial productions of history, locality, and heritage against a backdrop of intense urban change. The book will be of interest to photographic historians, visual anthropologists, and art historians.

Author : Emily Rose Stevenson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780367553418
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Indian Picture Postcards in Bengaluru written by Emily Rose Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 2023-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Combining ethnographic and archival research, this book examines the lives of colonial-period postcards and reveals how they become objects of contemporary historical imagination in India. Picture postcards were circulated around the world in their billions in the early twentieth century and remained, until the advent of social media, unmatched as the primary means of sharing images alongside personal messages. This book, based on original research in Bengaluru, shows that their lives stretch from their initial production and consumption in the early 1900s into the present where they act as visual and material mediators in postcolonial productions of history, locality and heritage against a backdrop of intense urban change. The book will be of interest to photographic historians, visual anthropologists, and art historians"--

Author : Madan Gopal Mukhopadhyay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789350203217
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Picture Postcards from the British Raj written by Madan Gopal Mukhopadhyay and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Emilie Le Febvre
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003817599
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Photography and Making Bedouin Histories in the Naqab, 1906-2013 written by Emilie Le Febvre and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing a novel anthropological study of photography in the Middle East, Emilie Le Febvre takes us to the Naqab Desert where Bedouin use photographs to make, and respond to, their own histories. She argues Bedouin presentations of the past are selective but increasingly reliant on archival documents such as photographs which spokespersons treat as evidence of their local histories amid escalating tensions in Israel. These practices shape Bedouin visual historicity, that is the diverse ways people produce their pasts in the present with images. This book charts these processes through the afterlives of six photographs (c. 1906–2013) as they circulate between the Naqab’s entangled visual economies – a transregional landscape organised by cultural ideals of proximity and assemblages of Bedouin iconography. Le Febvre illustrates how representational contentions associated with tribal, civic, and Palestinian-Israeli politics influence how images do history work in this society. She concludes Bedouin visual historicity is defined by acts of persuasion during which photographs authenticate alternating history projects. Here, Bedouin value photographs not because they evidence singular narratives of the past. Rather, the knowledges inscribed by photography are multifarious as they support diverse constructions of history and society with which members mediate a wide range of relationships in southern Israel. This book bridges studies of anthropology, photography, Palestinian-Israeli politics, and Bedouin Middle East history.

Author : Sangeeta Mathur
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789385285912
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Picturesque India written by Sangeeta Mathur and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-05 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * The book provides a glimpse of the visual history of India at the beginning of the industrial travel era, a hundred years back* Explore the geographic diversity of 130+ cities through 550 picture postcards of pre-Partition India* The book contains a detailed catalogue of the printers, photographers and publishers of the first picture postcards of IndiaWith the dawn of the twentieth century, at the height of the British Empire, came significant changes in the landscape of India - formation of new capital cities in the plains and summer retreats in the hills, evolution of towns or nagores and pores, growth of cantonment towns with their military and civil lines, development of ports or pattanams and creation of cultural, educational and trading centers, all increasingly well connected by an extensive rail, road and, later on, air network. The 550 postcards featured in this book visually document this growth, while also capturing evidence of earlier times in India's fascinating polytemporal towns. The postcards are divided across six chapters representing six regions within India and Pakistan, as they were a hundred years ago. Through these picture postcards and the supporting text, the readers can vividly imagine what it would have been like to travel by road or rail across India during the period 1896-1947. An attractive and nostalgic record of the topography of the time, these picture postcards are an untapped resource for those interested in the evolution of cities, town planning, architecture, ethnography, sociology or, simply, travel.

Author : John MacKenzie
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300268815
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( 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 2022-12-06 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.

Author : Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1208 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of the Society of Arts written by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1212 pages
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Download or read book Journal of the Royal Society of Arts written by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Omar Khan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788189995850
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paper Jewels written by Omar Khan and published by . This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * The first book on the subject of postcards in the Indian subcontinent* More than 500 professionally restored images* Chapters dedicated to cities and movementsPostcards were to people in 1900 what the Internet was to the world in 2000. The world went from a thousand to a billion postcards in a very short span of time, with the finest painters from India, Austria and Japan getting involved.Paper Jewels is the story of postcards during the Raj, and covers India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Burma. It is the first book on the subject and features hundreds of professionally-restored images in original format, weaving together the postcard artists, photographers, and publishers who define the rich history of the medium. The author's research also charts the history and progression of the technological aspects of postcard publishing and its key players. The concluding chapters explore the role postcards played in the Independence struggle, from the First Non-Cooperation Movement through the Dandi March and Partition. It includes some of the earliest cards of Mahatma Gandhi, Mohammed Ali Jinnah and other political figures. Many of the images in the book have not been seen since they were first published nearly a century ago. Published in association with The Alkazi Collection of Photography.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 906 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of the Society of Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: