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Article: Sackler show gives British view of India.(Metropolitan)(Life)(Party Lines)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
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- December 6, 2000
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The April 1902 photo is titled "Their Excellencies Lord and Lady Curzon With First Day's Bag in Camp" and is part of the new exhibit "India Through the Lens: Photography 1840-1911" at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.
It shows Lord Curzon, viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905, with pith helmet atop his head and hands jauntily jammed in pockets, and his lady, also wearing a pith helmet and holding a fan. At their feet is a bloody and quite obviously dead tiger.
"I love this because it epitomizes what India was under the British," Rama Deeva of Potomac said at an opening reception for the exhibit at the Sackler last Thursday night. "They were the rulers. ...