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Under the banyan tree : relocating the picturesque in British India / Romita Ray

Author(s): Ray, Romita

Under the banyan tree : relocating the picturesque in British India / Romita Ray
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Main Title
Under the banyan tree : relocating the picturesque in British India
Author(s)
Ray, Romita
Publisher
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2013
Collation
360 pages : illustrations
27 cm
ISBN
9780300187694
Dewey Class
704.9
Contents
Introduction: The Picturesque Prism -- Along the water's edge: Calcutta to Benares -- A cup of tea in a veil of mist: Darjeeling and the Himalayan picturesque -- Groves in the banyan: asserting the primordial -- Imperial phantom, bejewelled captive: diamonds and the picturesque spectacle -- Tusks of empire: visualizing the elephant -- Epilogue: Continuities.
Language
English
Subject
Art, British -- Themes, motives
India -- In art
BRN
10241
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