Reconsider the role of photography in the colonial enterprise, challenging the notion that photographs are simple, objective records of the past, with curator Sudeshna Guha and Giles Tillotson, SVP, DAG in an exhibition walkthrough of Histories in the Making: Photographing Indian Monuments, 1855–1920.

Professor at the Department of History and Archaeology, Shiv Nadar Institute of Eminence, Sudeshna Guha researches on histories of photography, archaeologies, precolonial India, collecting practices, museums and heritage-making.

Fellow (and former Director) of the Royal Asiatic Society, Giles Tillotson is currently Senior Vice President at DAG. His specialisms include the history and architecture of the Rajput courts of Rajasthan and of the Mughal cities of Delhi and Agra; Indian architecture in the period of British rule and after Independence and landscape painting in India.

An exhibition of nineteenth and early twentieth century photographs, Histories in the Making builds upon some of the earliest photographs of Indian monuments taken within the subcontinent to illustrate photography’s powerful role in shaping our understanding of Indian history.