In the 19th century, photography and colonial ethnography were tools of British governance on the subcontinent. Colonial officers were asked to submit photographs on various subjects across India. Images of people, place and space was seen as useful surveillance documentation to observe, understand and control native communities. Eugene Clutterbuck Impey (1830-1904) arrived in India in 1851 and lived there until his retirement in 1878. He served as political agent at different posts across the country. The Eastern Art archives include over 250 negatives and photographs of Impey’s images of people, architectural sites, and landscapes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Eugene Clutterbuck Impey arrived in India in 1851 and lived there until his retirement in 1878. He served as political agent at different posts across the country. The Eastern Art archives in the Ashmolean Museum include over 250 negatives and photographs of Impey’s images of people, architectural sites, and landscapes.
Foreword 7
\nXa Sturgis
\nForeword 9
\nRichard Ovenden
\nAcknowledgements 10
\nColonial Views of India 13
\nMallica Kumbera Landrus
\nPolitical Agency 37
\nGeoffrey Batchen
\nPicturesque Views and Architectural Documentation 47
\nJulia A. B. Hegewald
\nAlwar and Jodhpur 65
\nGiles Tillotson
\nMount Abu and Shimla 85
\nDane Kennedy
\nPerforming Community\/Performing Empire 105
\nRadhica Ganapathy
\nPortraying People 113
\nMarwa Ahmed
\nCaptive Cats 131
\nNayanika Mathur
\nCracking India: Fragile Archaeological Photographs 141
\nAparna Kumar
\nConstruction of Tradition 149
\nChaitanya Sambrani
\nObservation of a Photographer’s Process 157
\nTim Pearse
\nNotes 168
\nBibliography 173
\nContributors 176<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":70814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5525],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-70171","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-photography","7":"author-by-author-mallica-kumbera-landrus","8":"publisher-ashmolean-museum","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n