Spectacle & Surveillance

1806 – 1857

1806Mughal Emperor: Akbar IIthrough 1837

1806William Fraser, EIC Administrator and later British Resident of Delhithrough 1835

1808Atlantic slave trade abolished

1812War of 1812 between US and Britainpartly over the effects of British restrictions on US trade during the Napoleonic Wars. Through 1815.

1815Indian artists work on the Fraser Albumthrough 1820

1827Ghulam Ali Khan creates a trio of large paintings for James Skinner

1825US Events in the 19th CenturyResidual resistance by indigenous people crushed as immigration from Europe assumes mass proportions, with settlers moving westwards and claiming 'manifest destiny' to control North America; number of states in the union rises from 17 to 45

1837Bahadur Shah Zafar, last Mughal king of Delhithrough 1857

1837Coronation portrait of Zafar by Ghulam Ali Khan

1840Photography widely used as a medium by local and European photographersthroughout 1840s

1854US: Opponents of slavery, or abolitionists, set up Republican Party.

1857Uprising of 1857Followed by British siege of Delhi. Company rule replaced by Crown rule in India, Zafar exiled to Burma, his sons killed.