India by design : colonial history and cultural display /

Mathur, Saloni,

India by design : colonial history and cultural display / Saloni Mathur. - xi, 219 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-209) and index.

List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Colonial Patterns, Indian Styles -- The Indian Village in Victorian Space: The Department Store and the Cult of the Craftsman -- The Discrepant Portraiture of Empire: Oil Painting in a Global Field -- Collecting Colonial Postcards: Gender and the Visual Archive -- A Parable of Postcolonial Return: Museums and the Discourse of Restitution -- Epilogue. Historical Afterimages -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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East Indians in art
Art, Victorian.
Art, Indic.
Orientalism in art--History--England--19th century.
Orientalism in art--History--England--20th century.


India--In art.

N6767.5.V52 / M38 2007

709.54

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