Arte e letteratura dei paesi di lingua inglese
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Fashion
Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay’s Minute on Indian Education parla di "Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect"
traditional dhoti, churidar or kurta with jackets, shoes, umbrellas, buttons, sola tapis …
dhoti e chadar
Churidar + Kurta
Kurta + dhoti
'Don't disturb me. I am about to become a sahib" Tagore (1917)
George Bribwood, Founder of the Victoria and Albert Museum
Wiliam Morris, Arts and Craft Movement
Ananda Coomaraswamy
Heat and Dust
Heat and Dust
“Like many Indians, the Nawab was fond of entertaining Europeans. He was at a disadvantage in not having much to entertain them with, for his state had neither interesting ruins nor was it hunting country. All it had was dry soil and impoverished villagers. But his palace, which had been built in the 1820s, was rather grand. Olivia’s eyes lit up as she was led into the dining room and saw beneath the chandeliers the long, long table laid with a Sèvres dinner service, silver, crystal, flowers, candelabras, pomegranates, pineapples, and little golden bowls of crystallised fruits. She felt she had, at last in India, come to the right place.” Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Heat and Dust, p. 15
