Karlekar, Malavika.

Visual histories: photography in the popular imagination/ Malavika Karlekar - New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2013. - xi, 174 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

introduction

The colonial eye

Under canvas and within compounds

fixing the subject

A raja's Realm

Aperfomative space

The photograph and its accouterments

Glass plate negatives in bullock carts

parda and a poniard

shooting the sublime

The empire and an Aficionado

Through a prism , Darkly

Theartre of War

Sites of past conflict

A sky of inky tint

A racy counter narrative

postcards from home

panoply of the raj

Imaging india

Reading the pose

Ephemeral encounters

Cameras in the classroom

A grand old man

Tales of an elephant and a mule

Imaging the other

A child window story

A dancer in the darkroom

Ways of engaging

Scared space

Views behind the veil

Memorializing the mahatma

A monsoon of hatred and despair

An iconic observer

Histories on the wall

The 'second creature'

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