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Saturday, 28 May 2016
The British Rule in India
13)The
first European travel photographers arrived in India at a time of great
political unrest. The Indian Rebellion of 1857 which led to the end of
the East India Company and the institution of the British Raj had spread
through the north and lasted more than a year before it was suppressed.
Depictions of the sites of famous battles soon became wildly popular
with Britons both in #India and "back home" such as this shot of the gateway to Hoosainabad in #Lucknow c.1866 which eight years before had been under siege.
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