Werk/Gegenstand/Objekt
Titel
Titel/Objekt
Barracks and parade ground, Dagshai Hill (India)
Klassifikation (GND)
Klassifikation (normiert)
Gattung:
postcards
Inschrift/Wasserzeichen
Inschrift/Wappen/Marken
Transkription
96545
Transkription
Barrack's and Parade ground, Dagshai Hill (India).
Aufbewahrung/Standort
Aufbewahrungsort/Standort (normiert)
Delhi / The Priya Paul Collection of Popular Art
Objektbeschreibung
Objektbeschreibung
On this postcard, we see different houses of the British barracks. In the front there are two small trees, probably lemon trees. The buildings are connected through several small roads along the hill. (gs)
Colour information: Colour
Erhaltungszustand
damaged
Kommentar
##explanatory comments/crosstagging:
Dagshai, near Simla, was set up as a tuberculosis sanitarium and as a cantonment. (Shashwati Talukdar)(gs)
##explanatory comments/crosstagging:
Irish soldiers of the Connaught Rangers (in the British Indian Army) mutinied in 1920 to protest the conduct of British troops in Ireland. Fourteen of them were sentenced to death, though only one was executed in Dagshai, probably at this spot. (Shashwati Talukdar)(gs)
##explanatory comments/crosstagging:
A typical feature of the hill station postcards is that they often show colonial establishments such as military cantonments and churches. (Shashwati Talukdar)(gs)
##explanatory comments/crosstagging:
These establishments occupy the same place in the picture that a handsome old castle or a grand ruin would occupy in a picturesque landscape painting from the metropole. This transformation of a castle in the metropole to a cantonment or church in the colonies is more than just the monumentalizing of these institutions as colonial achievements. This transformation is related to the role of transplantation in the picturesque aesthetic. (Shashwati Talukdar)(gs)
Maß-/Formatangaben
Format/Maße/Umfang/Dauer
H 10 cm, W 15 cm, landscape
Auflage/Druckzustand
Werktitel/Werkverzeichnis
Herstellung/Entstehung
Material/Technik
chromolithographs, cardboard
Auftrag
Publikation
Fund/Ausgrabung
Provenienz
Restaurierung
Sammlung Eingang
Ausstellung
Bearbeitung/Umgestaltung
Thema/Bildinhalt
Thema/Bildinhalt (GND)
Thema/Bildinhalt (normiert)
Dagshai
H. A. Mirza and Sons.
Made in Germany
Himalayas
hill stations
recheck-Medialab
picture postcards
country of origin marks
Thematisierter Ort (GND)
Literaturangabe
Literaturangabe
Kenny, Judith 1995. "Climate, Race, and Imperial Authority: The Symbolic Landscape of the British Hill Station in India." In Annals of the Association of American Geographers 85, no. 4 (1995): 694-714. (gs)
Mathur S. 2007. "India by Design: Colonial History and Cultural Display". Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press; pp. 230. (gs)
Mitchell, W. J. T. 2002 "Imperial Landscape." In Landscape and Power, W. J. T Mitchell, 5-34. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. (gs)
Talukdar, Shashwati 2010. "Picturing Mountains As Hills. Hill Station Postcards and the Tales They Tell" http://www.tasveergharindia.net/cmsdesk/essay/102/index.html, last accessed 2010-12-16. (gs)
Rechte am Objekt
Aufnahmen/Reproduktionen
Rechtsstatus
In Copyright (InC) / Urheberrechtsschutz
Creditline
The Priya Paul Collection. Reproduced with kind permission of the collector.
Copyrighted. Copyright with the original artists and publishers.
