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Article: Exhibit paints picture of colonial India.(Arts and Lifestyle)
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- The Boston Herald
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- January 19, 2003
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Byline: Mary Sherman
The exhibit "Image and Empire: Picturing India During the Colonial Era" at Harvard University's Arthur M.Sackler Museum tells the sad but common tale of the subjugation of a strategic country and the way that situation played out in the arts.
It boldly faces the kind of painful political clashes that often occur when one country rules another; at the same time, the artwork reveals how cultural invasions can yield rich and fairer rewards.
Insightful wall texts provide a short historical overview of the colonization of India - from Vasco da Gama's first explorations in 1498 up through the British colonization in the 18th and ...