Contents
INTRODUCTION
1. Photography and the Delhi Coronation Durbars: 1877, 1903, 1911 —Julie F. Codell
2. Photography, Geography and the Archive
3. Photography, Geography and the Archive; Landscapes of Performance: Staging the Delhi Durbars —James R. Ryan and Nicola J. Thomas
4. Photography, Geography and the Archive: The Durbar and the Visual Arts: Revisiting the Picture Archive —Saloni Mathur
5. Maharajas and the Durbars
6. Maharajas and the Durbars: The Delhi Durbar: The View from Hyderabad —Benjamin B. Cohen
7. Maharajas and the Durbars: Photographic Interventions and Identities: Colonising and Decolonising the Royal Body —Julie F. Codell
8. Raja Deen Dayal
9. Raja Deen Dayal: The Limits of Photography: The Dayal Studio’s Coronation Album, 1903 —Deepali Dewan
10. Raja Deen Dayal: Evidence of Another Modernity: Lala Deen Dayal’s 1903 Delhi Durbar Photographs —Gita Rajan
11. The Durbar as Spectacle
12. The Durbar as Spectacle: The Great Durbar Crowds: The Participant Audience —Jim Masselos
13. The Durbar as Spectacle: The Line and the Curve: Spatiality and Ambivalence in the 1903 Delhi Coronation Durbar —Christopher Pinney
Catalogue of Photographs
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
About the Publication
This volume explores how photography represented, idealized and publicized the Delhi Coronation Durbars, occasions marking the formal coronations of English monarchs as empress and emperors of India: Victoria in 1877, Edward VII... Read More
About the Author
Julie F Codell is Professor of Art History at Arizona State University, and affiliate in Asian Studies, English, Film and Media Studies, and Women’s Studies. Benjamin Cohen is Associate Professor of History at the University of Ut... Read More
