Please join us for an exhibition walkthrough with curator Sudeshna Guha as she takes us through close to 200 rare ethnographic photographs and draws our attention to the construct that is a typology bringing critical scrutiny to the histories and errors of typecasting.

For photographs mean differently to different viewers, in different circumstances of viewing.

Typecasting: Photographing the Peoples of India, 1855-1920 shows the ability of photography to create—and to challenge—typologies. The photographs displayed here reveal how unstable social categories can be, despite their role in creating them in the first place.