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India
The People of India

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts (Katalog nur online verfügbar)
Auktionsdatum 29.11.2025

“The People of India”, edited by J. Forbes Watson. 1872. 30 oval and arch-topped albumen prints. Each circa 14 x 10 cm and larger. Each mounted to plate with printed caption below the image on the mount, accompanied by text pages. Published by the India Museum, London, 1872.

This group of photographs constitutes volume six of the eight-volume ethnographic series "The People of India", compiled between 1868-1875 under the direction of J. Forbes Watson and John William Kaye. Created in the wake of the 1857 Rebellion, the series aimed to visually and textually document the diverse peoples, castes, and occupations of British India for an English readership. The portraits - formal, frontal, and often richly detailed - offer a revealing, if colonial, perspective on the social taxonomy imposed by imperial ethnographers. – Some photos faded in edges, binding loose, spine frayed, some pages towards end with paper loss in edges, otherwise in good condition.

Lit.: J. Forbes Watson and John William Kaye. The People of India: A Series of Photographic Illustrations with Descriptive Letterpress of the Races and Tribes of Hindustan […]. Reprint in 2 volumes. Bath: Pagoda Tree Press, 2007.