‘Typecasting: Photographing the Peoples of India 1855–1920’ | Photographs of inhabitants of India, spanning geographies and cultures, on display at DAG | Delhi News
The Revolt of 1857 altered the governance of India in more ways than one. While it transferred power from the East India Company to the British crown, it also reshaped colonial modes of knowledge and control, including more systematic efforts to document and classify the subcontinent and its people. One such initiative was the eight-volume…