Search
![](https://reviews.history.ac.uk/sites/reviews/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/subrahmanyam.jpg?itok=NrZ8KzwX)
In this history of representations and knowledge formation Sanjay Subrahmanyam turns a historian’s gaze to the problems both implicitly and explicitly embedded in all histories of the early modern and modern world: why did Europeans represent and construct India and by extension, the non-European world in the ways that they did? Why and how did these constructs evolve?
![](https://reviews.history.ac.uk/sites/reviews/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/tythacott.jpg?itok=5OVKXo6u)
In Room 145 of the Ceramics Galleries of the Victoria & Albert Museum, at the top of case 50, you can see an ‘architectural fragment’, which, according to its label, ‘once ornamented a palace in Yuanmingyuan or “garden of perfect clarity”’.
![](https://reviews.history.ac.uk/sites/reviews/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/easternencounters.png?itok=5LBWKOOZ)
Some 70 years after the British left India it is timely to look back at how the kings and queens of the United Kingdom came to amass one of the largest private collections of South Asian art in the world. Two conjoined exhibitions currently showing at the Queen’s Gallery do just that.
![](https://reviews.history.ac.uk/sites/reviews/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/claiming-the-city-anindita-ghosh-9780199464791.jpg?itok=PiUSxSn-)
In the last couple of decades, there has been a resurgence in studying the history of South Asian urbanism with a wide range of monographs and articles being published.
![](https://reviews.history.ac.uk/sites/reviews/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/indentured_0.jpg?itok=hNYLNmcY)
Between 1834 and 1917, some 1.37 million Indian migrants travelled the length and breadth of the British Empire under contracts of indentureship.