LEADER 02440nam 2200277 u 450 001 9910866500403321 005 20240724160248.0 010 $a1-80008-573-7 035 $a(CKB)28546526200041 035 $a(VLeBooks)9781800085732 035 $a(EXLCZ)9928546526200041 100 $a20231025d2023uuuu uy 0 101 0 $aeng 200 $aThe India Museum Revisited 210 $cUCL Press$d2023 215 $a1 online resource (1 p.) 225 $aCo-Published With V&A 311 $a1-80008-572-9 311 $a1-80008-571-0 330 $aThe museum of the East India Company formed, for a large part of the nineteenth century, one of the sights of London. In recent years, little has been remembered of it beyond its mere existence, while an assumed negative role has been widely attributed to it on the basis of its position at the heart of one of Britain's arch-colonialist enterprises. Extensively illustrated, The India Museum Revisited provides a full examination of the museum's founding manifesto and evolving ambitions. It surveys the contents of its multi-faceted collections - with respect to materials, their manufacture and original functions on the Indian sub-continent - as well as the collectors who gathered them and the manner in which they were mobilized to various ends within the museum. From this integrated treatment of documentary and material sources, a more accurate, rounded and nuanced picture emerges of an institution that contributed in major ways, over a period of 80 years, to the representation of India for a European audience, not only in Britain but through the museum's involvement in the international exposition movement to audiences on the continent and beyond. Praise for The East India Company Revisited 'The book and its companion website will become standard sources for studying European and American practices of visually 'documenting' distant lands, the inescapable entwining of collections and displays with nineteenth-century imperial ambition and its rationalizing hierarchies of race and culture, while also affording opportunities to reassess the collection in ways that transcend the colonial constructs that shaped it.' Journal of the History of Collections 676 $a069.09421 700 $aMacGregor$b Arthur$f1941-$0155700 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910866500403321 996 $aThe India Museum Revisited$94175484 997 $aUNINA