TY  - BOOK
AU  - McAleer,John
TI  - Picturing India: people, places and the world of the East India Company 
SN  - 9788193393543 (hbk.)
U1  - 704.949954 MCA 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Seattle
PB  - University of Washington Press
KW  - East India Company
KW  - History
KW  - In art
KW  - British Occupation of India (1765-1947)
KW  - fast
KW  - Art, British
KW  - 18th century
KW  - 19th century
KW  - India
KW  - British occupation, 1765-1947
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - The British engagement with India was an intensely visual one. Images of the subcontinent, produced by artists and travellers in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century heyday of the East India Company, reflect the role it played in Indian life. They mirror significant shifts in British policy and attitudes towards India. The Company's story is one of wealth, power, and the pursuit of profit. It changed what people in Europe ate, what they drank, and how they dressed. Ultimately, it laid the foundations of the British Raj. But few historians have considered the visual sources that survive and their implications for the link between images and empire, pictures and power. This book draws on the unrivalled riches of the British Library, telling the story of individual images, their creators, and the people and places they depict. It will present a detailed picture of the Company and its complex relationship with India, its people and cultures
ER  -