This article explores colonial Indian postcards from the 1880s to the 1920s through the idiom of “imagined geographies,” as expressions of the relationship between the Othering of people and the Othering of spaces. Specifically the article focuses on representations of domestic space as a means by which those located within such spaces could be situated within a hierarchical, colonial relationship. I propose that colonial Indian postcards not only worked to disseminate macro, imperial ideology and the male colonizers’ fantasy of possession, but also expressed the microcosm of imperialism at work in the domestic, feminine sphere.
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