Taj Mahal at Sunset, kokka woodblock print on paper, 1919, Charles William Bartlett For a long time, there has been a general myth among art historians ... Colonial conquest of India enabled ...

This showed how a multinational firm "quickly applied its discovery of female centrality ... the emergence of professional advertising in colonial India, especially during the interwar years.

They were ‘the first art form ... s first India series – ‘The Gorgeous East’ – was based on painted visions of the 1903 Delhi Durbar. ‘Picture postcards staged the colonial space ...