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Maps a series of historical events - since the Raj in the mid-nineteenth century - through which India was made fashionable to Western audiences within the popular cultural arenas of the imperial metropole. This book presents an examination of India as represented in department stores, exhibitions, painting, and picture postcards of the era.

Table of Contents
List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction. Colonial Patterns, Indian Styles 1. The Indian Village in Victorian Space: The Department Store and the Cult of the Craftsman 2. "To Visit the Queen": On Display at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition of 1886 3. The Discrepant Portraiture of Empire: Oil Painting in an Expanded Field 4. Collecting Colonial Postcards: Gender and the Visual Archive 5. A Parable of Postcolonial Return: Museums and the Discourse of Restitution Epilogue. Historical Afterimages Notes Bibliography Index

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 06/11/2007
      ISBN13: 9780520252318, 978-0520252318
      ISBN10: 0520252314
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Maps a series of historical events - since the Raj in the mid-nineteenth century - through which India was made fashionable to Western audiences within the popular cultural arenas of the imperial metropole. This book presents an examination of India as represented in department stores, exhibitions, painting, and picture postcards of the era.

      Table of Contents
      List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction. Colonial Patterns, Indian Styles 1. The Indian Village in Victorian Space: The Department Store and the Cult of the Craftsman 2. "To Visit the Queen": On Display at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition of 1886 3. The Discrepant Portraiture of Empire: Oil Painting in an Expanded Field 4. Collecting Colonial Postcards: Gender and the Visual Archive 5. A Parable of Postcolonial Return: Museums and the Discourse of Restitution Epilogue. Historical Afterimages Notes Bibliography Index

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