Empires of light: Vision, visibility and power in colonial India

Introduction : Writing Photo-graphic Histories Of Empire -- Part I. Technologies Of Illumination. Through The Glass Darkly : The Phantasmagoria Of Elephanta -- Four Acts Of Seeing : The Veil As Technology Of Illumination -- Part Ii. 'visibility Is A Trap' : Battles Of The Veil. 'purdah Hai Purdah!' : Proscenium Theatre And Technologies Of Illusionism -- Erotics Of The Body Politic : The Naked And The Clothed -- Part Iii. Chiaroscuro, Portraiture And Subjectivity. Private Lives And Interior Spaces : Masculine Subjects In Ravi Varma's Scholar Paintings -- Impossible Subjects : The Subaltern In The Shadows. Niharika Dinkar. Electronic Reproduction. Baltimore, Md Available Via World Wide Web.