Beschreibung:
Natasha Eaton theorizes the relationship between art and empire through analysis of the interconnected visual cultures of British and Mughal empires in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century India.
List of Illustrations ixAcknowledgments xiiiIntroduction 11. Colonizing the Exotic: Indian and Colonial Art in London 192. The Mirroring of Mirrors: Nostalgia, Sovereignty, and Unhomely Images in Calcutta 633. Mimicking Kingship: Sovereign Genealogies, Vernacular Landscape, and the Work of William Hodges 1054. Art and Gift in India: Mimesis and Inalienability 1515. Sacrifice and the Double: Physiognomy, Divination, and Ethnographic Art in India 195Conclusion 229Notes 247Works Cited 297Index 323