Natasha Eaton theorizes the relationship between art and empire through analysis of the interconnected visual cultures of British and Mughal empires in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century India.

List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
1. Colonizing the Exotic: Indian and Colonial Art in London 19
2. The Mirroring of Mirrors: Nostalgia, Sovereignty, and Unhomely Images in Calcutta 63
3. Mimicking Kingship: Sovereign Genealogies, Vernacular Landscape, and the Work of William Hodges 105
4. Art and Gift in India: Mimesis and Inalienability 151
5. Sacrifice and the Double: Physiognomy, Divination, and Ethnographic Art in India 195
Conclusion 229
Notes 247
Works Cited 297
Index 323

Natasha Eaton is a Lecturer in the History of Art at University College London.