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Sir David Ochterlony, in Indian dress, smoking a hookah and watching a nautch in his house at Delhi c.1820 (detail). British Library. Flickr Commons. CC0. https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/12459433644.

Sita Ram, View of a Mosque and Gateway at Motijhil, c.1814-23. Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art. CC0. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/454429 

South Asian printed cotton wall hanging (detail). Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art. CC0. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/21466.

Sita Ram, The grounds of the palace of Farhat Baksh in Lucknow lit by innumerable coloured lamps, 1814-15. Sita Ram, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_grounds_of_the_palace_of_Farhat_Baksh_in_Lucknow_lit_by_innumerable_coloured_lamps_-_British_Library_Add.Or.4760.jpg (accessed March 6, 2024).

Orlando Norie, The 78th Highlanders at the Taking of Sucunderabagh, Siege of Lucknow, 1857. The Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library. https://victorianweb.org/painting/indianarmy/7.html.

William Barnes Wollen, The Last Stand of the 44th Foot at Gundermuck, 1842, Wikimedia Commons. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Last_Stand,_by_William_Barnes_Wollen_(1898).jpg

Roderick Mackenzie, The State Entry into Delhi (detail). Wikimedia Commons. CC2.0. Wikimedia Commons contributors, "File:1903 DELHI DURBAR PARADE (22317678808).jpg," Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:1903_DELHI_DURBAR_PARADE_(22317678808).jpg&oldid=559874274 (accessed October 1, 2022).

Sir Charles D’Oyly, The Mahommedan College. Plate 18b of Views of Calcutta and its Environs, 1848. Wikimedia Commons. CC0. Wikimedia Commons contributors, "File:Kolkata Alia Madrasah in 1848.jpg," Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository,

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‘The Indian Empire’, from an atlas by John Bartholomew and Co. Edinburgh Geographical Institute, 1912. Public domain. Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons contributors, "File:Indian Empire in 1912.jpg," Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository,

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Sir Charles D’Oyly, ‘The Summer Room in the Artist's House at Patna’, 1824. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. CC0. https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:2019.

Thomas Daniell, 'Old Court House and Street', Calcutta. No. 9 of Views of Calcutta, 1788. Wikimedia Commons contributors, "File:Old Court House and Street Calcutta1786.jpg," Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository,

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Thomas Daniell, 'Old Court House and Street', Calcutta. No. 9 of Views of Calcutta, 1788. Wikimedia Commons, CC0.

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