Afterimage of Empire: Photography in Nineteenth-Century India PDF
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Afterimage of Empire Afterimage of Empire photography in nineteenth-century india Zahid R. Chaudhary University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis London This publication is made possible in part from the Barr Ferree Foundation Fund for Publications, Princeton University. Portions of the Introduction and chapter 2 were previously published as “Phantasmagoric Aesthetics: Colonial Violence and the Management of Perception,” Cultural Critique 59 (2005): 63–119. Copyright 2012 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 http://www.upress.umn.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Chaudhary, Zahid R. Afterimage of empire : photography in nineteenth-century India / Zahid R. Chaudhary. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8166-7748-1 (hardback) ISBN 978-0-8166-7749-8 (pb) 1. Photography—India—History—19th century. I. Title. TR103.C49 2012 770.954—dc23 2011047428 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer. 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For Chaudhary Muhammad Rafiq (1933–2009) and Razia Begum Rahman This page intentionally left blank The formation [Bildung] of the five senses is the work of all previous history. —Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 This page intentionally left blank Contents introduction Sensation and Photography 1 one Death and the Rhetoric of Photography 37 X Marks the Spot two Anaesthesis and Violence 73 A Colonial History of Shock three Armor and Aesthesis 107 The Picturesque in Difference four Famine and the Reproduction of Affect 153 Pleas for Sympathy coda Sensing the Past 189 Acknowledgments 197 Appendix: Translations 201 Notes 205 Bibliography 235 Index 247
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