Indian Renaissance: British Romantic art and the prospect of India

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Contents: Foreword Part I The idea of India: tiger, tree and cave: Tigers of all stripes The great Banyan tree of India The Cave Temple of Elephanta: eroticism and art The Indian prospect in English Romantic art and literature Sanskrit translations for an Indian Renaissance The ideal of India: ancient India as the uroffenbarung of the Romantic era Part II Oriental fantasies and Indian prospects: Tilly Kettle's theater of India The dancing girl of Faizabad Artists and traders at Oudh Edenic nights and everyday living The paradise of the Nayars Natural paradise and natural history Part III English Romantic art and the Indian prospect: The Royal Academy and the prospect of India Patronage of learning - by a Governor General Hodges' Indian sublime Temple gloom and rural complexity Conversations in Calcutta abd Oudh The legacy of Clive and Hastings Part IV Storming Seringapatam: The drama and romance of empire: Little boys lost Romantic, revolutionary Mysore Storming Seringapatam Imperial vision: the progress from Cornwallis to Wellesley The view from the hill-forts Part V Thomas Daniell and the picturesque possession of India: 'Times are changed': early and late views of Calcutta Travel and picturesque possession Oriental Scenery: from Bengal to Madras, 1795-97 Twelve 'singular' Antiquities of India, 1799-1800 Objects and scenes of conquest, 1801-1803 Twenty-Four Landscapes composed too perfectly, 1804-1805 Singular India, 1808 Part VI Dark prospects in the light of empire: 'Something new' - the freaks of gold Devolution of an Indian prospect Missionaries of empire The imperial sublime of James Baillie Fraser Savage forms and natural landscapes for the imperial traveler Charles D'Oyly - the view from an elephant's back Part VII Elegies to an Indian Renaissance: Empire follows art: the retrospections of Hodges and Zoffany Blake's prophecies against empire Blake's 'Indian' epic Turner and the dragons of empire George Chinnery

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