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020			_a9781009567213
028			_a: Savera Book Distributors _b: 4754 Akarshan Bhawan, 23 Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New Delhi _c: 25-26/CRB/1183 _d: 27/03/2026
082			_a954.03 CHA
100			_aChatterjee, Apurba.
245			_aAn Empire of Images _b: Visual Culture and the British in India, 1688–1815. _c/ Apurba Chatterjee.
260			_a, New York _b: Cambridge University Press _c, 2025.
300			_axix, 360p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b1015
520			_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.
650			_aEmpire of Images
650			_aCulture and the British History
650			_aHistory
700			_aApurba Chatterjee
942			_cBOOK
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