While promoted as an objective documentation tool, early colonial photography was a construction of Indianhood as an ethnographic specimen of a backward civilisation, thereby justifying the civilising mission of the colony.
While promoted as an objective documentation tool, early colonial photography was a construction of Indianhood as an ethnographic specimen of a backward civilisation, thereby justifying the civilising...
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While promoted as an objective documentation tool, early colonial photography was a construction of Indianhood as an ethnographic specimen of a backward civilisation, thereby justifying the civilising mission of the colony.
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