Brij Bhushan Sharma
Biographic Data
| ID | 7246594 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brij Bhushan Sharma |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brij Bhushan |
| FAMILY NAME | Sharma |
| SIGNATURE | SHARMA B B |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8930-8102 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Montagu Redknap
The first car journey from England to India was made by Major F. A. C. Forbes-Leith in 1924. The journey, undertaken in a 14 hp Wolseley, Colonial pattern, began in Leeds on Sunday 27 April 1924, and ended five and a half months later in Quetta, at that time in the Baluchistan province of India and now in Pakistan. The distance covered in 96 running days was 8,527 miles. So that the expedition could pay for itself, it was decided to make a travel…
Camera obscura and the last Mughal
It was a Tuesday afternoon, 1 January, 1850; Helen Mackenzie was out sketching in the Red Fort of Delhi. To aid her efforts she was using a camera obscura. She wanted to make ‘a sketch in the camera of the Dewan-i-Khas, where the peacock throne used to stand’. For that she really needed a chair, but since chairs were not allowed within the court, a message was sent to the king, to request a special dispensation. The king's response was that she ‘…
Fred Bremner's Indian years
Fred Bremner is a minor British photographer, one of hundreds who set up studios in Indian cities and cantonments in the last century, only to fade away. The only photohistorian of India to mention him is Judith Mara Gutman, who finds reason to dismiss him in one misleading paragraph.1
A Bijapur Album
In the author's collection, there is an album of the type that was very much in vogue in Victorian times, with an excellent cloth cover, sound binding, and thick cardboard leaves with floral and ornate designs, made for family portraits. Instead of portraits, however, it has 12 architectural studies of monuments in Bijapur, a ruined city some 350 miles from Bombay
Artists and photography; Some Indian encounters
We know that many European artists in the last century used photographs and photography to serve their own ends.1 Indeed, many use them today, but in this essay we are concerned only with western artists visiting India and Indian professional artists of Victorian times, who were attracted to photography, and either took to the camera themselves or else resorted to other people's photographs to serve their purposes
Typical pictures of Indian Natives
A Persian curiosity
There are many nineteenth century books in European languages with actual photographs pasted in, but a Persian book, printed lithographically in Bombay 100 years ago and carrying actual photographs of no less than six heads of state, five of them European, must be ranked as a curiosity. The title-page of the book does justice to the florid style of Persian favoured by the Shahs: (in translation) ‘A Relation of Some of the Events in the Life of Ki…
James Ricalton — an American photographer in India
Stereophotography became an inexpensive affair with the invention of a binocular camera in 1853. Soon publishers began issuing books with stereophotographs pasted in, and according to Ray Desmond at least five such books were issued on India between 1858 and 1864.1 The fad seems to have died soon after. However, in the 1890s, thanks to Messrs. Underwood & Underwood of New York, there was a marked revival of interest in the genre as the firm provi…
Sir John Malcolm in Persia
Major-General Sir John Malcolm's History of Persia was first published in two quarto volumes in 1815, followed by a new edition in 1829. By the time he wrote the book he was a diplomat of long standing in India, and had been on three missions to Persia, in 1799, 1808 and 1810. The political achievements of his missions were questioned even in his own time, but he certainly made good use of his visits to collect material for a history of Persia, a…
Through Indian eyes
Wilsonian Rambles
Rambles in Northern India, by Francesca H. Wilson, was published by Sampson Low, Marston, Low and Searle of Fleet Street, in 1876, having been printed by the Chiswick Press. Copies are in the author's collection, in the Boston Public Library and in the British Library. This one-of-a-kind item is interesting enough to warrant a description here. It is an elaborate production, in a fullcloth binding, with golden embossments on cover and spine. All …
An album of the governors-general of India
Albums of the sketches of public characters fascinated the Victorians, and one often comes across titles such as The Portrait Gallery of the Female Nobility, The Celebrated Women of All Countries, Portraits of the Principal Characters in the Waverltry Novels, or The Shakespeare Gallery in publishers' catalogues.1 Thus, for instance, Emily Eden, sister of Lord Auckland, Governor-General of India from 1836-42, who spent the years of her brother's t…
Album of the governors-general
Darogha Ubbas Alii
When Samuel Bourne, noted 19th-century photographer, arrived in India in 1863 he was surprised to find that 'at Calcutta it is no uncommon thing to see native portrait establishments' 1 . When the Photographic Society of Bengal was formed in 1856 its Secretary was an Indian — Baboo Preonath Seth 2 . When the Archaeological Survey of India was formed in 1861, the assistance of amateur as well as professional photographers was enlisted to record bu…
Architectural photography in Western India and the work of Colonel T. Biggs
Ever since the days of Warren Hastings, the first Governor-General of India, and the foundation of the Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1784, a succession of English scholar-statesmen in India took a keen interest in ancient Indian learning, including arts and antiquities. Despite this early awareness about the significance of Indian antiquities, until the 1850s serious studies were severely handicapped by the absence of faithful pictorial records of…
A ‘Photographic’ book on the Indian Mutiny
Though in the mid 19th century elephant-folios and oblong-quartos of engravings and lithographs, depicting everything from ornithological curiosities to exotic scenery, were still very much in fashion and demand, the newly-discovered art of photography was slowly making inroads into the preserve of the engravers. By the 1860s, many London publishers had issued a number of books carrying actual photographs as illustrations, to cater for a new gene…
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A ‘Photographic’ book on the Indian Mutiny
Though in the mid 19th century elephant-folios and oblong-quartos of engravings and lithographs, depicting everything from ornithological curiosities to exotic scenery, were still very much in fashion and demand, the newly-discovered art of photography was slowly making inroads into the preserve of the engravers. By the 1860s, many London publishers had issued a number of books carrying actual photographs as illustrations, to cater for a new gene…
Darogha Ubbas Alii
When Samuel Bourne, noted 19th-century photographer, arrived in India in 1863 he was surprised to find that 'at Calcutta it is no uncommon thing to see native portrait establishments' 1 . When the Photographic Society of Bengal was formed in 1856 its Secretary was an Indian — Baboo Preonath Seth 2 . When the Archaeological Survey of India was formed in 1861, the assistance of amateur as well as professional photographers was enlisted to record bu…
Architectural photography in Western India and the work of Colonel T. Biggs
Ever since the days of Warren Hastings, the first Governor-General of India, and the foundation of the Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1784, a succession of English scholar-statesmen in India took a keen interest in ancient Indian learning, including arts and antiquities. Despite this early awareness about the significance of Indian antiquities, until the 1850s serious studies were severely handicapped by the absence of faithful pictorial records of…
An album of the governors-general of India
Albums of the sketches of public characters fascinated the Victorians, and one often comes across titles such as The Portrait Gallery of the Female Nobility, The Celebrated Women of All Countries, Portraits of the Principal Characters in the Waverltry Novels, or The Shakespeare Gallery in publishers' catalogues.1 Thus, for instance, Emily Eden, sister of Lord Auckland, Governor-General of India from 1836-42, who spent the years of her brother's t…
Album of the governors-general
Wilsonian Rambles
Rambles in Northern India, by Francesca H. Wilson, was published by Sampson Low, Marston, Low and Searle of Fleet Street, in 1876, having been printed by the Chiswick Press. Copies are in the author's collection, in the Boston Public Library and in the British Library. This one-of-a-kind item is interesting enough to warrant a description here. It is an elaborate production, in a fullcloth binding, with golden embossments on cover and spine. All …
A Persian curiosity
There are many nineteenth century books in European languages with actual photographs pasted in, but a Persian book, printed lithographically in Bombay 100 years ago and carrying actual photographs of no less than six heads of state, five of them European, must be ranked as a curiosity. The title-page of the book does justice to the florid style of Persian favoured by the Shahs: (in translation) ‘A Relation of Some of the Events in the Life of Ki…
James Ricalton — an American photographer in India
Stereophotography became an inexpensive affair with the invention of a binocular camera in 1853. Soon publishers began issuing books with stereophotographs pasted in, and according to Ray Desmond at least five such books were issued on India between 1858 and 1864.1 The fad seems to have died soon after. However, in the 1890s, thanks to Messrs. Underwood & Underwood of New York, there was a marked revival of interest in the genre as the firm provi…
Sir John Malcolm in Persia
Major-General Sir John Malcolm's History of Persia was first published in two quarto volumes in 1815, followed by a new edition in 1829. By the time he wrote the book he was a diplomat of long standing in India, and had been on three missions to Persia, in 1799, 1808 and 1810. The political achievements of his missions were questioned even in his own time, but he certainly made good use of his visits to collect material for a history of Persia, a…
Through Indian eyes
A Bijapur Album
In the author's collection, there is an album of the type that was very much in vogue in Victorian times, with an excellent cloth cover, sound binding, and thick cardboard leaves with floral and ornate designs, made for family portraits. Instead of portraits, however, it has 12 architectural studies of monuments in Bijapur, a ruined city some 350 miles from Bombay
Artists and photography; Some Indian encounters
We know that many European artists in the last century used photographs and photography to serve their own ends.1 Indeed, many use them today, but in this essay we are concerned only with western artists visiting India and Indian professional artists of Victorian times, who were attracted to photography, and either took to the camera themselves or else resorted to other people's photographs to serve their purposes
Typical pictures of Indian Natives
Montagu Redknap
The first car journey from England to India was made by Major F. A. C. Forbes-Leith in 1924. The journey, undertaken in a 14 hp Wolseley, Colonial pattern, began in Leeds on Sunday 27 April 1924, and ended five and a half months later in Quetta, at that time in the Baluchistan province of India and now in Pakistan. The distance covered in 96 running days was 8,527 miles. So that the expedition could pay for itself, it was decided to make a travel…
Camera obscura and the last Mughal
It was a Tuesday afternoon, 1 January, 1850; Helen Mackenzie was out sketching in the Red Fort of Delhi. To aid her efforts she was using a camera obscura. She wanted to make ‘a sketch in the camera of the Dewan-i-Khas, where the peacock throne used to stand’. For that she really needed a chair, but since chairs were not allowed within the court, a message was sent to the king, to request a special dispensation. The king's response was that she ‘…
Fred Bremner's Indian years
Fred Bremner is a minor British photographer, one of hundreds who set up studios in Indian cities and cantonments in the last century, only to fade away. The only photohistorian of India to mention him is Judith Mara Gutman, who finds reason to dismiss him in one misleading paragraph.1
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