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SUMMARY:'Savages’ in Sketchbooks: Tribal Portraits of Colonial India  - 
 Anshul Avijit\, PhD Candidate in History of Art\, King's College\, Univers
 ity of Cambridge\,
DTSTART:20151023T160000Z
DTEND:20151023T180000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes
DESCRIPTION:This talk examines the relationship between the restive tribal
  communities and the British administrators\, mediated through drawings\, 
 engravings and photographs. It is generally believed that British imperial
 ism of the early nineteenth century found its vindication through the civi
 lizing values of Utilitarianism\, of which reform of the ‘savage’ beca
 me a key imperative. Here are examined the complex ways in which bureaucra
 ts\, soldiers and surveyors portrayed the communities living in the forest
 ed frontiers of the Empire. It is also suggested that the conventional app
 roaches involving power and dominance may not be sufficient to understand 
 the colonial-indigene dynamic and propose alternate paradigms of engagemen
 t. The Mughal miniatures of the Bhils as well as the Bengal School gouache
 s of the Santals are found to be useful in building these paradigms.
LOCATION:S3 Seminar Room\, Alison Richard Building\, Cambridge\, 7 West Rd
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