Maharanis : women of royal India
Abhishek Poddar (Editor), Nathaniel Gaskell (Editor), K. G. Pramod Kumar (Author), Tasveer (Gallery) (Host institution), Museum of Art & Photography (Bangalore, India) (Issuing body)
" ... This volume brings forth portraits of royal women who lived during the last phase of the erstwhile royal families in India - from the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries. The collection spans the length and breadth of the country: from Travancore in the South, right up to Jammu and Kashmir in the North, from Tripura in the East to Rajasthan in the West. These photographs, functioning as documented history, reveal the ways in which these women navigated and reinvented the traditional, or embraced and reinvented the modern. Closely charting the shifting roles of women in the public sphere and in private through the changing tropes of photographic portraiture, the essays shine a light on some the important narratives of a country in the throes of great political, social and aesthetic transition. ..." -- excerpt taken from book jacket
Print Book, English, 2015
Mapin Publishing in association with Tasveer, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, India, 2015