5HUM0325 Peace, Power and Prosperity: Lecture 5 Empire
Structure of the lecture the nature of the British Empire debate on ‘imperial absentmindedness’ viewing the empire and its identity through architecture
Sepoy or Indian Rebellion of 1857 Felice Beato, ‘Fort Lucknow after the Indian Mutiny’ ‘Justice,’ Punch (12 Sept. 1857)
Queen Victoria as Empress of India, 1877
Great Exhibition, 1851, and the Gwalior Gateway at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, South Kensington, London 1886 Illustrated News, July 1886
‘Save me from my Friends!’, Punch, 30 Nov. 1878
Alfred Egmont Hake, ‘The Death of General Gordon at Khartoum’ (1885)
Government House, Calcutta (1798-1803), now Raj Bhavan, Kolkatta
Victoria Terminus, Bombay (1878-87), postcard from 1905 [now Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbai] http://www.harappa.com/post4/bombay05.html
Mayo College, Ajmer (1875)
Victoria Memorial Hall, Madras (1909), now National Art Gallery, Chennai
Gateway of India (1911), Mumbai
Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta (1906-21), now art museum, Kolkatta