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SUMMARY:The Iconography of Alterity: Simla and the Visualisation of ‘Bri
 tish’ Enclaves in Indian Highlands  - Siddharth Pandey\, Faculty of Educ
 ation\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20141013T150000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes
DESCRIPTION:The first seminar in the ‘Visual Constructions of South Asia
 ’ series aims to understand the politics of visualisation in the setting
  up of Indian hill stations. Nineteenth-century India witnessed the growth
  of a new urban entity across its length and breadth\, that of the ‘hill
  station’. Serving as an "other" to the heat and dust-ridden cities such
  as Delhi and Calcutta lying in the flat plains\, the hill station was dev
 eloped by the colonizers in the nostalgic image of their home lying far aw
 ay in the British Isles. This presentation looks into the visual documenta
 tion of such a lifestyle through a variety of media: sketches\, lithograph
 s\, architecture\, photographs\, and postcards. Keeping Simla – the summ
 er capital of British India from 1864 to 1947\, and the most famous hill s
 tation – as its focus\, the seminar hopes to chart a history of percepti
 on of the hill station’s evolution through a detailed exposition of mate
 rial archives covering a period of around two centuries. It ends with a co
 mmentary on the contemporary state of Simla’s "visualisation".
LOCATION:S2 Seminar Room\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Rd.
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