Under the banyan tree
Subtitle: relocating the picturesque in British India
By: Romita Ray
Publisher: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British art by Yale University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780300187694
Subjects: In art; British Art; Picturesque, The, in art; Themes, motives
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Along the water's edge: Calcutta to Benares; title: A cup of tea in a veil of mist: Darjeeling and the Himalayan picturesque; title: Groves in the banyan: asserting the primordial; title: Imperial phantom, bejewelled captive: diamonds and the picturesque spectacle; title: Tusks of empire: visualizing the elephant.