01847nam a22002057a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802801260007608200150020210000240021724501030024126000540034430000240039836500090042252011190043165000210155065000360157165000120160770000220161920260327154106.0260327b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9781009567213  a: Savera Book Distributorsb: 4754 Akarshan Bhawan, 23 Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New Delhic: 25-26/CRB/1183d: 27/03/2026  a954.03 CHA  aChatterjee, Apurba.  aAn Empire of Imagesb: Visual Culture and the British in India, 1688–1815.c/ Apurba Chatterjee.  a, New Yorkb: Cambridge University Pressc, 2025.  axix, 360p.c: 24cm.  b1015  aHow did Britons come to see themselves as fit to govern India? An Empire of Images focuses on the visual arts as central to the making of political legitimacy during the long eighteenth century. Through images by both British and Indian artists, this book explores how peoples, landscapes, flora, and fauna in India became part of an imperial self-image. Torn between open triumphalism and anxious contingency, British artists and patrons sought to dissect India's mysteries and justify East India Company rule under the Crown. Meanwhile, Indian artists interpreted the realities of British hegemony in terms of both their native cultural resources and modes introduced by the colonizer. Tracing an emerging imperial ideology on canvas and in prints, as well as the pages of official archives and personal papers, this book offers new insights into reconfigurations of power in a period of European expansion in Asia. As Chatterjee argues, early colonial India became a site for contestation around British visual ascendancy, which must complicate our own understandings of honour, guilt, knowledge, and belonging.  aEmpire of Images  aCulture and the British History  aHistory  aApurba Chatterjee