British Sculpture and the Company Raj: Church Monuments and Public Statuary in Madras, Calcutta, and Bombay to 1858

by Barbara Groseclose

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This book looks at the complicated ways that sculptures sent to India from London during the heyday of the East India Company invoked and ensured a rationale for the British presence in India. Illustrated.

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