Professor Mallica Kumbera Landrus is Keeper of the Eastern Art Department in the Ashmolean Museum, where the collections span more than 5,000 years of cultural and artistic development, from across Asia and parts of Africa. Her curatorial responsibilities are mainly in Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian art.

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• Foreword 7Xa SturgisForeword 9Richard OvendenAcknowledgements 10Colonial Views of India 13Mallica Kumbera LandrusPolitical Agency 37Geoffrey BatchenPicturesque Views and Architectural Documentation 47Julia A. B. HegewaldAlwar and Jodhpur 65Giles TillotsonMount Abu and Shimla 85Dane KennedyPerforming Community/Performing Empire 105Radhica GanapathyPortraying People 113Marwa AhmedCaptive Cats 131Nayanika MathurCracking India: Fragile Archaeological Photographs 141Aparna KumarConstruction of Tradition 149Chaitanya SambraniObservation of a Photographer’s Process 157Tim PearseNotes 168Bibliography 173Contributors 176

Professor Mallica Kumbera Landrus is Keeper of the Eastern Art Department in the Ashmolean Museum, where the collections span more than 5,000 years of cultural and artistic development, from across Asia and parts of Africa. Her curatorial responsibilities are mainly in Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian art.

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• Foreword 7Xa SturgisForeword 9Richard OvendenAcknowledgements 10Colonial Views of India 13Mallica Kumbera LandrusPolitical Agency 37Geoffrey BatchenPicturesque Views and Architectural Documentation 47Julia A. B. HegewaldAlwar and Jodhpur 65Giles TillotsonMount Abu and Shimla 85Dane KennedyPerforming Community/Performing Empire 105Radhica GanapathyPortraying People 113Marwa AhmedCaptive Cats 131Nayanika MathurCracking India: Fragile Archaeological Photographs 141Aparna KumarConstruction of Tradition 149Chaitanya SambraniObservation of a Photographer’s Process 157Tim PearseNotes 168Bibliography 173Contributors 176

Professor Mallica Kumbera Landrus is Keeper of the Eastern Art Department in the Ashmolean Museum, where the collections span more than 5,000 years of cultural and artistic development, from across Asia and parts of Africa. Her curatorial responsibilities are mainly in Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian art.

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• Foreword 7Xa SturgisForeword 9Richard OvendenAcknowledgements 10Colonial Views of India 13Mallica Kumbera LandrusPolitical Agency 37Geoffrey BatchenPicturesque Views and Architectural Documentation 47Julia A. B. HegewaldAlwar and Jodhpur 65Giles TillotsonMount Abu and Shimla 85Dane KennedyPerforming Community/Performing Empire 105Radhica GanapathyPortraying People 113Marwa AhmedCaptive Cats 131Nayanika MathurCracking India: Fragile Archaeological Photographs 141Aparna KumarConstruction of Tradition 149Chaitanya SambraniObservation of a Photographer’s Process 157Tim PearseNotes 168Bibliography 173Contributors 176