Photography of British India 1840s-1910s

Photography was introduced to India in the mid-nineteenth century, with the arrival of the British. Many early photographers were assigned by the British government to document Indian architecture, landscape, religions, and society. Their images, with a romantic and Eurocentric view, provided both their contemporaries and today’s spectators a sense of exoticism and distant memory, and at the same time a sense of visual wonder at the monuments and history of the Indian subcontinent.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.