The book makes you appreciate that photographers travelled and that they were engaged for projects. The chapter on Maharaja Sawai Ram Singh of Jaipur, his motivations and his agency, make for a very interesting read. Bookstrapping rating: 3.5 stars
The editor of the book aims to dismantle our conditioned habits of viewing ‘who’ and ‘where we are’, ‘what is real’ in our world. She also uproots the frames of familiar history, making us realise that peoples and cultures that seem unconnected today may have had generative connections in the past.