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| The Delhi Coronation Durbars |
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Edited by Julie F. Codell
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Contribution by Benjamin Cohen, Deepali Dewan, Jim Masselos, Saloni Mathur, Christopher Pinney, Gita Rajan, James Ryan and Julie F. Codell
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This volume explores how photography represented,
idealised and publicised the Delhi Coronation Durbars of
1877, 1903 & 191
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OUT OF STOCK |
240 x
275 mm |
9.45 x
10.8 in
Hardcover |
248 pages
147 colour photographs |
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ISBN:
978-81-89995-50-8 (Mapin)
978-1-935677-10-9
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Table of contents |
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Photography and the Delhi Coronation Durbars, 1877, 1903, 1911
Julie F. Codell
PHOTOGRAPHY, GEOGRAPHY AND THE ARCHIVE
Landscapes of Performance: Staging the Delhi Durbars
James R. Ryan and Nicola J. Thomas
The Durbar and the Visual Arts: Revisiting the Picture Archive
Saloni Mathur
MAHARAJAS AND DURBARS
The Delhi Durbar: The View from Hyderabad
Benjamin B. Cohen
Photographic Interventions and Identities: Colonising and Decolonising the Royal Body
Julie F. Codell
RAJA DEEN DAYAL
Photography at its Limits: The Dayal Studio’s Coronation Album, 1903
Deepali Dewan
Evidence of Another Modernity: Lala Deen Dayal’s 1903 Delhi Durbar Photographs
Gita Rajan
THE DURBAR AS SPECTACLE
The Great Durbar Crowds: The Participant Audience
Jim Masselos
The Line and the Curve: Spatiality and Ambivalence in the 1903 Delhi Coronation Durbar
Christopher Pinney
Catalogue of Photographs
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
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| Selected Images |
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The Durbars were occasions marking the formal coronations of English monarchs as empress and emperors of India: Victoria in 1877, Edward VII in 1903 and George V in 1911. Instituted by the Viceroys of India—Lytton, Curzon and Hardinge—the Durbars were the first examples of the inscription of the Raj in a celebratory history that served to legitimate colonial presence. Lasting several weeks, each lavish occasion was imaged and described in photographs (cartes-de-visite as well as private, popular and commissioned photos), paintings, press illustrations, illustrated souvenirs, memoirs, photo albums and films.
The book focuses on photographs made for those who attended the Delhi Durbars and for a global audience who did not attend. It features vital photographs that were commissioned from the foremost British and Indian photographers such as Raja Deen Dayal & Sons, Vernon &Co., and Bourne & Shepherd, as well as those shot by amateur photographers.
The essays in this volume focus on semiotics of image and the role of Durbar photographs in visually rendering the complexities of colonial logic, the scopic regimes of surveillance and spectacle, and the pivotal ideologies and hyperbolic fantasies of a subjugated ‘Orient’ promoted by the imperial administrations to justify British rule in India.
About the Authors
Julie F Codell is Professor of Art History at Arizona State University, and affiliate in Asian Studies, English, Film and Media Studies, and Women’s Studies.
Benjamin Cohen is Associate Professor of History at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City.
Deepali Dewan is the Curator of South Asian Art at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, and Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto.
Jim Masselos is an Honorary Reader in History at the University of Sydney.
Saloni Mathur is Associate Professor of Art History at The University of California, Los Angeles.
Christopher Pinney is Professor of Anthropology and Visual Culture at University College London.
Gita Rajan is Professor of English at Fairfield University. James R. Ryan is Associate Professor of Human Geography at the University of Exeter (Cornwall Campus).
Nicola Thomas is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Exeter.
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Illustrated with images from The Alkazi Collection of Photography.
Published in association with the Alkazi Foundation for the Arts.
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