TY - BOOK AU - Dinkar,Niharika TI - Empires of light: vision, visibility and power in colonial India T2 - Rethinking art's histories SN - 9781526139634 (hbk.) : U1 - 709.5'4 23 PY - 2019/// CY - Manchester PB - Manchester University Press KW - Ravi Varma, KW - Art, Indic KW - Art, Colonial KW - India KW - Light in art KW - Art and Design KW - eflch KW - ukslc N1 - Specialized N2 - A study of light, vision and power in colonial India. It examines the material cultures of light within imperial networks, drawing the colonial experience into contemporary debates on vision and optics to provide an art historical account of how a modern consciousness was forged amidst these dramatic transformations ER -