The Society’s library recently received a kind donation from the Maharana of Mewar Charitable Foundation (MMCF) in Udaipur (Rajasthan, India) of its beautiful exhibition catalogue Picturing Place: Painted and Printed Maps at the Udaipur Court. This exhibition charts how visual representations of topography and territory in Udaipur were transformed during the 19th and early 20th centuries under British colonial influence. The introduction of new European map-making practices looms large in t...
