The colonial subculture it depicts is an example of the little societies spawned by colonialism worldwide. As part of a greater process, such subcultures played a significant role in contact between the West and the rest of the world within the context of their times. Quotations from the interviews have been included for each section of the exhibition. The picture of British India presented by the exhibition has been influenced in part by how the interviewees themselves remembered their experience and India. The materials presented here focus on British India as a colonial subculture and on some of the cultural implications of the British-Indian connection.
Viewers can move to any section from here or from any other section.
Each section contains an introduction and small images with captions. Each image can be enlarged for better viewing. A few excerpts from these interviews were available as sound recordings at the original exhibition. Transcribed texts of excerpts have been more extensively provided for this electronic version of the exhibition. From each section the viewer can move to excerpts related to that section.