The tremendous pictorial richness of rare prints, engravings, lithographs and maps which had a wide market in 18th and 19th century British India are featured here. The title covers a wide range of interesting subjects: the people of India, costumes, customs, eating habits of the British in India, architecture, landscape, flora and fauna, to mention only a few
About The Marg Foundation
This collection features comprehensive coffee-table books from Marg, one of India’s foremost publishing houses for the arts. The books in this collection deal with the arts of Sindh, Lahore and Nepal; with the architecture of South India, Sultanates and beyond; with dance forms; with artists; with religion; with pop culture; with textiles, and much more. Each is meticulously researched with lavish visuals, taking the reader on a journey through culture.
Based in Mumbai, Marg has long been a bastion of India’s rich heritage, with its prolific body of coffee-table publications and quarterly magazines. Marg’s publications are often hard to categorise; they push boundaries to delve deep into the subjects they cover.