Picturing India: People, Places, and the World of the East India Company

by John McAleer

The British engagement with India was an intensely visual one. Images of the subcontinent, produced by artists and travelers in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century heyday of the East India Company, reflect the increasingly important role played by the Company in Indian life. And they mirror significant shifts in British policy and attitudes toward India. The Company's story is one of wealth, power, and the pursuit of profit. It changed what...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295742933
• ISBN13: 9780295742939
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 3.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.0" x 11.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher