[Reader-list] Photographs and surveillance

[mazzarel at midway.uchicago.edu]

Just another footnote: the first chapter of Christopher Pinney's book, Camera 
Indica, deals extensively with the intersection of ethnology and surveillance 
in nineteenth century photography in India

WM


Quoting Rana Dasgupta <rana_dasgupta at yahoo.com>:

> Further to last posting on biometric surveillance,
> here's a picture that might be of interest.
> 
> It's a photograph of a convict from the Punjab dated
> 1869.  In the wake of the 1857 revolution the British
> invested a lot in new ways of understanding and
> monitoring the population in India, and photography
> was one of those ways.  
> 
> notice also how categories such as 'Caste' were
> important governing categories.
> 
> R
> 
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