Visual Histories of South Asia
(Foreword by Christopher Pinney)
EDITOR – Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes and Marcus Banks
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This volume is one of the first comprehensive contributions to the rapidly developing cross disciplinary scholarship that connects visual studies with South Asian historiography. The key purpose of the book is to introduce scholars and students of South Asian and Indian history to the first in-depth evaluation of visual research methods as a valid research framework for new historical studies. The volume identifies and evaluates current developments in visual sociology and digital anthropology relevant to the study of contemporary South Asian constructions of personal and national identities.
Owing to its wide-ranging theoretical methodology, from concepts of visual perception to media semiotics, Visual Histories of South Asia covers a rich thematic agenda with contributions ranging from ethnographic research to gender studies, fine arts analyses, theoretical and methodological questions, economic structures, international politics and contemporary cultural patterns.
In charting the theoretical and historical advances in visual and historical studies dedicated to South Asia, and by addressing issues of private and national memory within regional, national, and contemporary South Asian iconography, from the mid-seventeenth century to the early twenty-first century, and the thirteen contributions selected for this volume are of immediate relevance to visual theorists and historians, sociologists and cultural anthropologists, as well as to students and scholars of South Asian history and culture.
The Editors
Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes is Visiting Lecturer in Digital and New Media Anthropology at the Division of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK.
Marcus Banks is Professor of Visual Anthropology at the University of Oxford, UK.
‘This volume provides a rich feast of materials for anyone interested in the visual cultures and history of visual representation in South Asia and is notable as well for its fascinating exploration of the intersection of Western and local photographic practices.’— DAVID MACDOUGALL, The Australian National University
‘This is a remarkable, genuinely interdisciplinary collection, and both a marvellously rich addition to the study of the life of visual images in South Asia, and a highly sophisticated contribution to debates of the interdisciplinary study of visual culture.’— JAMES LAIDLAW, William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology,
Head of Division, Social Anthropology.
Fellow, King’s College, University of Cambridge
‘This is a unique and excellent contribution to the field of South Asian visual studies, art history and cultural analysis. This text takes an interdisciplinary approach while keeping its focus on the visual, on material cultural and on art and aesthetics. It brings together empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated analysis on representations from colonial and post-colonial eras ranging from colonial era photography to ‘tribal art’, temple and video art. In doing so it bridges a major gap in our understanding of South Asia’s modern history by using the idiom of visual culture and the politics of representation.’— KAMRAN ASDAR ALI, Professor of Anthropology and Director,
South Asia Institute, University of Texas, Austin
‘This is an outstanding contribution to a timely and relevant focus on transregional visual history and historiography of South Asia. This rescaling of what is often times an India-centric visual history is accompanied by remarkably heterogeneous approaches from across disciplines and methods, challenging notions of political, cultural, religious or ethnic reications. The book offers insights into original material and a framework of rich epistemologies, entanglements, relationalities and translations. It will encourage new generations of scholars to further push boundaries of established canons and exploring new frontiers of visual culture and history studies.’— CHRISTIANE BROSIUS, Chair of Visual & Media Anthropology,
Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies
This volume is one of the first comprehensive contributions to the rapidly developing cross disciplinary scholarship that connects visual studies with South Asian historiography. The key purpose of the book is to introduce scholars and students of South Asian and Indian history to the first in-depth evaluation of visual research methods as a valid research framework for new historical studies. The volume identifies and evaluates current developments in visual sociology and digital anthropology relevant to the study of contemporary South Asian constructions of personal and national identities.
Owing to its wide-ranging theoretical methodology, from concepts of visual perception to media semiotics, Visual Histories of South Asia covers a rich thematic agenda with contributions ranging from ethnographic research to gender studies, fine arts analyses, theoretical and methodological questions, economic structures, international politics and contemporary cultural patterns.
In charting the theoretical and historical advances in visual and historical studies dedicated to South Asia, and by addressing issues of private and national memory within regional, national, and contemporary South Asian iconography, from the mid-seventeenth century to the early twenty-first century, and the thirteen contributions selected for this volume are of immediate relevance to visual theorists and historians, sociologists and cultural anthropologists, as well as to students and scholars of South Asian history and culture.
The Editors
Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes is Visiting Lecturer in Digital and New Media Anthropology at the Division of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK.
Marcus Banks is Professor of Visual Anthropology at the University of Oxford, UK.
‘This volume provides a rich feast of materials for anyone interested in the visual cultures and history of visual representation in South Asia and is notable as well for its fascinating exploration of the intersection of Western and local photographic practices.’— DAVID MACDOUGALL, The Australian National University
‘This is a remarkable, genuinely interdisciplinary collection, and both a marvellously rich addition to the study of the life of visual images in South Asia, and a highly sophisticated contribution to debates of the interdisciplinary study of visual culture.’— JAMES LAIDLAW, William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology,
Head of Division, Social Anthropology.
Fellow, King’s College, University of Cambridge
‘This is a unique and excellent contribution to the field of South Asian visual studies, art history and cultural analysis. This text takes an interdisciplinary approach while keeping its focus on the visual, on material cultural and on art and aesthetics. It brings together empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated analysis on representations from colonial and post-colonial eras ranging from colonial era photography to ‘tribal art’, temple and video art. In doing so it bridges a major gap in our understanding of South Asia’s modern history by using the idiom of visual culture and the politics of representation.’— KAMRAN ASDAR ALI, Professor of Anthropology and Director,
South Asia Institute, University of Texas, Austin
‘This is an outstanding contribution to a timely and relevant focus on transregional visual history and historiography of South Asia. This rescaling of what is often times an India-centric visual history is accompanied by remarkably heterogeneous approaches from across disciplines and methods, challenging notions of political, cultural, religious or ethnic reications. The book offers insights into original material and a framework of rich epistemologies, entanglements, relationalities and translations. It will encourage new generations of scholars to further push boundaries of established canons and exploring new frontiers of visual culture and history studies.’— CHRISTIANE BROSIUS, Chair of Visual & Media Anthropology,
Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies
Table Of Contents
| Foreword Christopher Pinney |
ix-xiii |
| List of Illustrations | xv-xviii |
| Acknowledgements | xix-xx |
| Introduction | xxi-xxviii |
| 1. An Archaeology of Visual Practices: Exploring One’s Own Archive Marcus Banks |
1-20 |
| 2. All for One, One for All: A New Art for the Gonds Denis Vidal |
21-37 |
| 3. Decorum: Courtly Posturing in the Visual Economy of Indo-Danish Diplomacy Josefine Baark |
39-54 |
| 4. The Visual Politics of Menstruation, Birth, and Devotion at Kamakhya Temple in Assam Imma Ramos |
55-71 |
| 5. A Fragmented Gaze: Depictions of Frontier Tribes and the Beginnings of Colonial Anthropology Thomas Simpson |
73-92 |
| 6. Perpetual Antiquity in Early Photographs of Ceylon Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes |
93-123 |
| 7. Picturing Indian Kingship: The Photographic Practices of Maharaja Sayaji Rao III of Baroda Teresa Segura-Garcia |
125-141 |
| 8. From Princely to Barbaric: Indian Masculinities as Colonial Landscape in Bourne and Bourne & Shepherd’s Photographs Xavier Guégan |
143-170 |
| 9. Teaching the Alphabet of Health to the Indian Masses: The Visual Languages of the Red Cross in India, 1918-39 Adrian Peter Ruprecht |
171-188 |
| 10. Democracy Beyond the Borders: Martin Luther King, Jr. and his Tour of India, 1959 Aaron Bryant |
189-208 |
| 11. Visually Playing Politics: Use of Sports as Political Critique in Newspaper Cartoons Souvik Naha |
209-229 |
| 12. Framing Simla: The Queen of Hill Stations and the Politics of Iconography Siddharth Pandey |
231-251 |
| 13. New Medium, New Historiography: Re-Narrating Islamic Pasts in India through VCDs Ronie Parciack |
253-270 |
| Bibliography | 271-294 |
| Notes on Editors and Contributors | 295-299 |
| Photo Credits | 301-304 |
| Index | 305-314 |
