Indian Renaissance

Prize: winner of the The Association of Historians of British Art prize for 2007 in the post-1800 category

'.... a welcome addition to the field of British Indian studies. The authors have ... made a significant contribution to the study of the role of art and the development of British imperial identity and ideology ... this book is original, fresh, engaging ... The text is a must for anyone interested in British Romanticism. It stands apart from previous publications on British artists working on the subcontinent in that it avoids the cliché biographical or descriptive approach. Instead de Almedia and Gilpin focus on analysis shedding light on significant questions such as how the desire to dominate another culture influenced the subjects of art works.' New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies

'This important text offers an original and very welcome addition to the literature on the art and aesthetics of British India during the early period of colonization; as such it contributes significantly to the increasing debate over British art's relation to imperial history, as well as forcing a reconsideration of the changing ways in which India was perceived by the British during this period.' Geoff Quilley, National Maritime Museum, London, UK

'This ranging and detailed study seriously complicates our notions of the place of India in the Romantic imagination. Lavishly and intelligently illustrated, Indian Reniassance persuasively argues that images of India were crucial to late-18th and early-19th-century Europe, and to Romanticism itself. This is a book Romanticists will need to read and absorb visually-and to own.' J. Paul Hunter, University of Virginia