THE RAJ LANDSCAPE: BRITISH VIEWS OF INDIAN CITIES BY JAGMOHAN MAHAJAN (1988, HC)

Description: (From the book flap) "...It seems difficult to believe now, but until the late eighteenth century when the visiting British landscape artists made sketches of the Taj Mahal at Agra and the Jama Masjid and the Qutb Minar at Delhi, nobody who had not been to Agra or Delhi could have known what these marvellous monuments really looked like: one had to visualise their magnificence from the written accounts alone. It was because until then there had been practically no visual record of India owing to the virtual absence of the genre of landscape painting in an otherwise rich Indian art. The sketches of the picturesque Indian scenes made by the British landscape artists, who started coming to India in the last quarter of the eighteenth century, thus gave not only the outside world but also the Indians themselves the first ever visual impressions of the superb monuments all over the country, the colourful ghats of Varanasi (Benares) and the splendid temples of south India. Inevitably, the artists also made visual documentation of the fast growing new cities of the Raj-Calcutta, Madras and Bombay—as also of Shimla (Simla), the archetype of the eighty odd hill stations established by the British. The artists were naturally also drawn to the cities of 'Oriental' India like Varanasi, Lucknow, Delhi and Agra-even though the last two were then shorn of their historic glory and imperial grandeur. This book deals with the British views of these eight cities during the period when the British were steadily emerging as the dominant power in India. Besides, a general survey of major British landscape artists both professional and amateur-who made early views of India is given in an..." ABOUT US: We are a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation. We sell books and other items donated by community members to raise money for our local library system. We fund services, reading programs and purchases not in their budget. Our organization has operated continuously in the same city since 1937. PROCEEDS BENEFIT OUR LOCAL LIBRARY PROGRAMS - THANK YOU! Please visit our store for more titles.https://www.ebay.com/usr/friendsofthepaloaltolibrary

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