How photography helped the British empire classify India
AI Summary
A new exhibition, "Typecasting: Photographing the Peoples of India, 1855-1920," organized by DAG, explores how photography was used by the British Empire to classify India's diverse population. The exhibition, featuring nearly 200 rare photographs, showcases how the camera was deployed to define communities and make India's social complexities understandable to the colonial government. It includes images from "The People of India" survey (1868-1875) and works by photographers like Samuel Bourne and Lala Deen Dayal. The exhibition maps human geography, including communities from the north-east to the north-west, and highlights those assigned to the lower rungs of the colonial social order. The images shaped perceptions of India's diversity, translating lived realities into seemingly stable "types" for administrative purposes.
Key Entities & Roles
Keywords
Sentiment Analysis
Source Transparency
This article was automatically classified using rule-based analysis. The political bias score ranges from -1 (far left) to +1 (far right).
Topic Connections
Explore how the topics in this article connect to other news stories
Find Similar Articles
AI-PoweredDiscover articles with similar content using semantic similarity analysis.