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Not much is known about how the coming of photography changed visual discourse or affected people's lives. Divided into two sections, this selection of 32 essays, each illustrated with archival photographs, looks at the camera in the colonial era and in post-independent India. In the nineteenth century, the camera and the studio became necessary prostheses in the new engagement between the colonized and the rulers. Europeans in India-of whom the British were the largest in number-were the initia
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Karlekar, Malavika, author
- Publisher
- New Delhi ; Oxford : Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780198090267
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Photography, History, Social History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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