AGO Art Talks and Tours

The height of the Raj coincided with the advent of photography. Both the colonial administration and the princely courts took advantage of this new technology to fashion and distribute an image of themselves to a increasingly interconnected world. This talk focused on the work of one remarkable photographer, Deen Dayal, who worked for many of the most powerful of Princely rulers at the end of the nineteenth century--including the Maharajas of Dhar and Gwalior and the Nizam of Hyderabad. His work became not only a chronicle of courtly life but was central to producing an identity for the princely state itself.