Maharanis : women of royal India
Abhishek Poddar (Editor),Nathaniel Gaskell (Editor),K. G. Pramod Kumar (Author),Tasveer (Gallery) (Host institution),Museum of Art & Photography (Bangalore, India) (Issuing body)
" ... This volume brings forth portraits of royal women who lived during the last phase of the erstwhile royal families in India - from the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries. The collection spans the length and breadth of the country: from Travancore in the South, right up to Jammu and Kashmir in the North, from Tripura in the East to Rajasthan in the West. These photographs, functioning as documented history, reveal the ways in which these women navigated and reinvented the traditional, or embraced and reinvented the modern. Closely charting the shifting roles of women in the public sphere and in private through the changing tropes of photographic portraiture, the essays shine a light on some the important narratives of a country in the throes of great political, social and aesthetic transition. ..." -- excerpt taken from book jacket
Print Book,English, 2015
Mapin Publishing in association with Tasveer, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, India, 2015
exhibition catalogs
191 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 32 cm
9789385360060, 9781935677642, 938536006X, 1935677640
932267190
Foreword
Introduction
Incognito: photographs of women across princely India
The incomparable princesses of India
Images of Indian royalty
Behind the veil, in front of the lens
Catalogue
Acknowledgements
Contributors
"This publication has been produced in conjunction with the exhibition 'Maharanis: women of royal India', presented by Tasveer"--Title page verso
"Supported by MAP."