| Description |
1 online resource (239 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-225) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: the possibility of a visual history -- Indian images under the shadow of colonialism -- Staging Hinduism: lithographs and popular theatre in Calcutta, 1870-1885 -- Peshwas, parrots and bombs: lithographs and politics in Western India, 1870- 1885 -- Lithographs and the camera in Bombay and Delhi, 1890-1925 -- Pastoral realism: the Nathdvara devotional aesthetic, 1925-1935 -- The politics of popular images: from cow protection to M.K. Gandhi, 1890-1950 -- Half-seen in advance: picture production in independent India, 1950-2000 -- What pictures want now: rural consumers of images, 1980-2000 -- Epilogue: the recursive archive. |
| Summary |
Drawing on years of archival research, interviews with artists and publishers, and the ethnographic study of their rural consumers, Christopher Pinney traces the intimate connections between the production and consumption of mass-produced images in India and the struggle against colonial rule. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Local Note |
EBSCOhost Art and Architecture Complete |
| Subject |
Idols and images -- Political aspects -- India.
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Photography -- India -- History -- 20th century.
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Photography -- Political aspects -- India.
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Printing -- India -- History -- 20th century.
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Hinduism.
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India -- Politics and government -- 1947-
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- History & Theory.
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Hinduism. (OCoLC)fst00957121
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Photography. (OCoLC)fst01061714
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Photography -- Political aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01061785
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Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
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Printing. (OCoLC)fst01076612
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India. (OCoLC)fst01210276
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| Chronological Term |
Since 1900
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Pinney, Christopher. Photos of the gods. London : Reaktion Books, 2004 9781861891846 (OCoLC)52697021 |
| ISBN |
9781861896117 (electronic book) |
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1861896115 (electronic book) |
| Standard No. |
9781861891846 |
| ISBN |
1861891849 |
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9781861891846 |
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1861891849 |
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9781861891846 |
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