British Indian Picture Postcards in Bengaluru

ISBN-13: 9780367549190 / Twarda / 2023 / 200 str.

Emily Stevenson

Opis

Combining ethnographic and archival research, this book examines the lives of colonial-period postcards and reveals how they become objects of contemporary historical imagination in India.

Spis treści

Introduction  Following the Ramchand Box, Part One  1. Behind the Lens: Producing Picture Postcards  Following the Ramchand Box, Part Two  2. Picture Postcard Bengaluru  Following the Ramchand Box, Part Three  3. “Juggling” with the Past and Present: Picture Postcard Collections as Mnemonic Things  Following the Ramchand Box, Part Four  4. Ephemeral Frictions: Picture Postcards and Heritage in “India’s Silicon Valley”  Conclusion: The Thing About Picture Postcards in the “City Without a Past”

O autorze

Emily Stevenson is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.