{"product_id":"9781935677109","title":"Power and Resistance: The Delhi Coronation Durbars","description":"\u003cp\u003ePower and Resistance is published in association with The Alkazi Foundation for the Arts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeatures vital photographs that were commissioned from the foremost British and Indian photographers such as Raja Deen Dayal \u0026amp; Sons, Vernon \u0026amp;Co., and Bourne \u0026amp; Shepherd, as well as those shot by amateur photographers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFocuses on photographs made for those who attended the Delhi Durbars and for a global audience who did not attend.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe essays focus on semiotics of image and the role of Durbar photographs in visually rendering the complexities of colonial logic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Durbars were occasions marking the formal coronations of English monarchs as empress and emperors of India: Victoria in 1877, Edward VII in 1903 and George V in 1911. Instituted by the Viceroys of India - Lytton, Curzon and Hardinge - the Durbars were the first examples of the inscription of the Raj in a celebratory history that served to legitimate colonial presence. Lasting several weeks, each lavish occasion was imaged and described in photographs (cartes-de-visite as well as private, popular and commissioned photos), paintings, press illustrations, illustrated souvenirs, memoirs, photo albums and films.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents: Introduction; Photography and the Delhi Coronation Durbars, 1877, 1903, 1911; Landscapes of Performance: Staging the Delhi Durbars; The Durbar and the Visual Arts: Revisiting the Picture Archive; The Delhi Durbar: The View from Hyderabad; Photographic Interventions and Identities: Colonising and Decolonising the Royal Body; Photography at its Limits: The Dayal Studio's Coronation Album, 1903; Evidence of Another Modernity: Lala Deen Dayal's 1903 Delhi Durbar Photographs; The Great Durbar Crowds: The Participant Audience; The Line and the Curve: Spatiality and Ambivalence in the 1903 Delhi Coronation Durbar; Catalogue of Photographs; Bibliography; Contributors;\u003cbr\u003eIndex.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mapin Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033462653168,"sku":"9781935677109","price":69.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781935677109_p0.jpg?v=1763657345","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781935677109","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}