
Sketches of Native Life in India (Reprint, first published in 1848)
$71
| Author: | Charles Richard Francis Introduction by Vikas Arya |
| ISBN 13: | 9788173057232 |
| Binding: | Hardbound |
| Language: | English |
| Year: | 2025 |
| Pages: | 82pp., 22x29cm |
| Published On: | 13th September 2025 |
| Subject: | Art and Archaeology/Painting and Sculpture |
About the Book
CONTENTS: Preface, Introduction-Observer and Observed: The Colonial Gaze-Vikas Arya, 1. The Pilgrimage to Poshkur-Gipsy Encampment-Fort of Tara Gurh in Ajmere, 2. Poshkur, 3. Bazaar, or Market Scene, 4. Scene on the Lake of Poshkur, 5. Dawk Travelling: With a Moonlight View of the Burial Ground at Nusseerabad, 6. Snake Charming, 7. A Moonshee, 8. Two Women Grinding at a Mill, 9. Women Drawing Water from a Well in the Evening, 10. Confluence of the Ganges and Jumna, 11. A Camel Battery, etc, 12. Scene Near a Hospital, 13. View from the Fort at Bhurtpore, 14. A Cantonment, 15. Madras, 16. A Group of Characters, 17. A Group of Native Soldiers, 18. Five Portraits, 19. Five Portraits, 20. Lord Hardinge’s Residence at Shimla, 21. Insects, etc., 22. James Town, St. Helena.
