The Imperial Aesthetic: Photography, Samuel Bourne and the Indian Peoples in the Post-Mutiny Era /

The Imperial Aesthetic: Photography, Samuel Bourne and the Indian Peoples in the Post-Mutiny Era /

Samuel Bourne (1834-1912) is one of the best well-known Victorian English commercial photographers to have worked in British India, where he sojourned from 1863 to 187. Soon after his arrival he started a business with the experienced photographer Charles Shepherd. Within a few years, the firm Bourn...

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Main Author: Guégan, Xavier (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2026.

Series: Photography in Asia ; 3.
Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

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Art History.
Asian Studies.

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Call Number: N5305

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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Photographs, Illustrations and Maps
  • Maps
  • Introduction: To Conquer with "Less Noise and Smoke"
  • 1 An Anglo-Indian Society in Transition
  •  1 From Liberalism to Indirect-Direct Rule: The Creation of a Cultural 'Visibility'
  •  2 Photographing India and the Orients
  • 2 Categorising, Perceiving and Experiencing Indians in the British Raj
  •  1 Bourne the Photographer: A Successful Career
  •  2 The 'Heroic' Explorer: How to Build a Photographic Indian World
  •  3 Experiencing Colonial Categorisation and the Objectification of the Indian People
  •  4 A Distorted View of the World
  • 3 Governmentality, Photography and the Historicising of British India
  •  1 The Mutiny and Its Photographical Representation
  •  2 Ordering a Perceived Disordered World
  •  3 Indian Men and Women as Symbols of Conflict and Pacification
  • 4 Harnessing Modernity, Capitalising on Imagined Human Landscape
  •  1 Religion and Scientism, Bourne's View of a Modern World
  •  2 Imperial Progress and the Tale of Two Indias
  •  3 Making Indians a Living Museum: Tribes and Ethnic Minorities
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix 1: Contents of Bourne & Shepherd's Royal Photographic Album of Scenes and Personages Connected with the Progress of HRH the Prince of Wales through Bengal , the North West Provinces , the Punjab and Nepal with Some Descriptive Letterpress (1876)
  • Appendix 2: Photographic Processes Discussed and Used by Bourne and Bourne & Shepherd
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index.