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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.

Art, Indic. --- Art, Colonial --- Light in art. --- Light and darkness in art --- Chiaroscuro --- Colonial art --- Indic art --- Ravi Varma, --- Iravivarmā, --- Varma, Ravi, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Ravi Varma. --- chiaroscuro. --- colonial Indian. --- imperialism. --- light. --- modernity. --- portraiture. --- theatre. --- unveiling. --- visual technologies.