Picturing the Nation: Iconographies of Modern India
Richard Davis
Price
1530
ISBN
9788125029083
Language
English
Pages
264
Format
Hardback
Dimensions
158 x 240 mm
Year of Publishing
2006
Territorial Rights
World
Imprint
Orient BlackSwan
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Picturing the Nation presents a visual history of modern India and explores visual representations of India from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. The essays in this volume have illustrations, which have all been reproduced in full colour on art paper. The illustrated pages have also been placed within the chapters that refer to them. The images include chromolithographs, posters, cards and photographs of architecture and cultural displays.

The book has a comprehensive introduction by Richard Davis and it attempts to answer the question––how is it that so many persons have been persuaded to die willingly for something as recently imagined as the nation? Market: University and college departments of history, sociology, social anthropology, the visual arts, art history. The book is also accessible to a wider audience interested in the visual media and in the history of modern India. This is the second book out in the Indian market in this area and the earlier one is Beyond Appearances? edited by Sumathi Ramaswamy (Sage 2003), which is a single colour book.

Editor and Contributors: Richard H Davis, the editor teaches Religion and Asian Studies at Bard College, Annandale, New York. His previous publications include Worshiping Siva in Medieval India (1991) and Lives of Indian Images (1997). The contributors are all established in the field of the visual imagery of modern India and have publications to their credit. The contributors are Sumathi Ramaswamy, Christopher Pinney, Ajay Sinha, Sandria Freitag, Catherine B. Asher, Kajri Jain, Christiane Brosius and Raminder Kaur.