Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

An Englishwoman who sketched India before photography took hold

bbc.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

41–50 of 81 posts

Re: An Englishwoman who sketched India before photography took hold

#46

Post by 21asdffdsa12 »

pm90 wrote: post #3

Besides the sketches, she has written extensively about Indian rulers at the time (e.g. Ranjit Singh). If you found this interesting, you would love the Empire Podcast... I believe they talk about Emily in the episode on Afghanistan ( https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/79-invading-afghanista... ); Dalrymple's book on the subject (Return of a King, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_of_a_King ) is also a masterfu…

Great podcasts. Also gives you more of an idea why empires started existing. Basically keep the lights on at home at the price of somewhere else going dark. Empire is a life support mechanism for civilization, because when the exponential of life runs out on the linear of physics, social machinery is needed to be more than a riotous blob of ever-warring starving people.

Basically a civilization scale heat-pump, similar to a central state, but over several countries. Which makes rebellion against the empire - a not so noble act, once things actually get scarce- decomplexification prevents the opening up of empire subsidized discovery of new energy sources. At the same time, empires can be unproductive, basically rentseeking and abandoning the purpose the heatpump originally was build for.

Of course to the post colonialists, the existence of any heat pump is pure evil. And for the individual it is. But then again this ignores that the situation is evil. If the selfish drive to have all the offspring, maxes out the ressources, dissolves all the institutions and decomplexifies all things, a empire structure is needed to build a weather-satellite rocket from the food of to many peasants. Its horrifying, and was not necessary in recent memory due to the surplus productivity of capitalism. But if you decomplexify the beast that allows you to only have good situations - you restore the need to create the beast that handles only

Re: An Englishwoman who sketched India before photography took hold

#47

Post by codeduck »

raws wrote: post #41

I think it looks like I'm only seeing rich individuals of the times are there more sketches of other classes as well?

There are a few more images omitted from the BBC article in her actual works: https://archive.org/details/Eden30538/page/n5/mode/2up

Re: An Englishwoman who sketched India before photography took hold

#49

Post by seesawtron »

djklfhdsbv wrote: post #48

I love it, the English can be there to exploit India and enslave its people but we treat their work as art. If it was anyone else like the Ottomans, we would treat it as barbarianism.

Oh boy, you haven’t read enough about the British rule in India.

Re: An Englishwoman who sketched India before photography took hold

#50

Post by GJim »

21asdffdsa12 wrote: post #46
pm90 wrote: post #3

Besides the sketches, she has written extensively about Indian rulers at the time (e.g. Ranjit Singh). If you found this interesting, you would love the Empire Podcast... I believe they talk about Emily in the episode on Afghanistan ( https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/79-invading-afghanista... ); Dalrymple's book on the subject (Return of a King, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_of_a_King ) is also a masterfu…

Great podcasts. Also gives you more of an idea why empires started existing. Basically keep the lights on at home at the price of somewhere else going dark. Empire is a life support mechanism for civilization, because when the exponential of life runs out on the linear of physics, social machinery is needed to be more than a riotous blob of ever-warring starving people. Basically a civilization scale heat-pump, simil…

All empires were not created equal!
Post reply on HN