‘An insight into British perceptions of India and its inhabitants’ The exhibit begins with an overview of the transition from Mughal miniature painting to mica painting in the late 18th and ...

A meticulously researched, well-written book, Travellers in the Golden Realm is both immensely informative as well as entertaining: a must-read for anybody interested in India’s colonial history.

Jessica Hinchy, a historian and author of Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India, said it was not suspected prostitutes alone who were subjected to genital examinations in colonial India.

The exhibit, currently on view at the Museum of Art and Photography, is said to be a first-of-its-kind focusing specifically on mica paintings ‘An insight into British perceptions of India and ...