India by design : colonial history and cultural display

We cite from the COVER:
"India by Design maps for the first time a series of historical events — from the Raj in the mid-nineteenth century up to the present day — through which India was made fashionable to Western audiences within the popular cultural arenas of the imperial metropole. Through an examination of India äs represented in department stores, museums, exhibitions, painting, and picture postcards of the era, the book carefully confronts the problems and politics of postcolonial display and offers an original and provocative account of the implications of colonial practices for visual production in our contemporary world."
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CONTENTS:
0. Introduction. Colonial Patterns, Indian Styles
1. The Indian Village in Victorian Space : The Department Store and the Cult of the Craftsman
2. "To Visit the Queen" : On Display at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition of 1886
3. The Discrepant Portraiture of Empire : Oil Painting in a Global Field
4. Collecting Colonial Postcards : Gender and the Visual Archive
5. A Parable of Postcolonial Return : Museums and the Discourse of Restitution
Epilogue. Historical Afterimages / Notes / Bibliography / Index
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