Under the Banyan Tree. Relocating the Picturesque in British India, Hardback

Offers a comprehensive study of the evolution and flourishing of the picturesque during the British Raj. The author argues that this concept allowed British artists and writers travelling in India to aestheticize the Indian landscape, its people, and the biota (the banyan tree and the elephant, above all).

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Author(s): Romita Ray
• Number of pages: 372
• Collection: Studies in British Art
• Publication date: 2013
• Dimensions: 262 x 200 x 31
• Cover type: Hardback