By Julie Codell
This book is a richly illustrated
collection of essays on the global media representations of the Delhi
Coronation Durbars of 1877, 1903 and 1911, with a focus on colonial photography
of these monumental events. Authors draw on art history, anthropology, history
and geography to analyze the social, political and ideological ways in which
photography was deployed to record and enhance these imperial spectacles, and
the subtle ways photographs also critiqued and undermined the imperial
intentions of these events. The book is part of an innovative series on
colonial photography that draws on the vast archives of thousands of colonial
photographs of British imperial colonies in the Ebrahim Alkazi Foundation for
the Arts (New Delhi).
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