How Photography Helped the British Empire Classify India

Curated by historian Sudeshna Guha, the exhibition centers on folios from The People of India, an influential eight-volume photographic survey published between 1868 and 1875. From this core, the exhibition expands outward to include albumen and silver gelatin prints by photographers such as Samuel Bourne, Lala Deen Dayal, John Burke, and the Shepherd & Robertson studio, whose images helped define the visual language of the era.