How photography helped the British empire classify India
A new exhibition in Delhi showcases 200 rare photographs that fixed identities in colonial India.
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"Taken together, this material tells the history of ethnographic photography and its effect on the British administration and the Indian population, in a project which in size and depth has never before been seen in India."
— Ashish Anand , Executive
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A new exhibition in Delhi showcases 200 rare photographs that fixed identities in colonial India.
A new exhibition in Delhi showcases 200 rare photographs that fixed identities in colonial India.
A new exhibition in Delhi showcases 200 rare photographs that fixed identities in colonial India.
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