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Other Orientalisms analyses various forms of knowledge about India through the circulation of people, ideas, knowledge, images and objects between Florence and Bombay. In the second half of the nineteenth century Florence became an important centre for studies on India, manifested in the organisation of exhibitions, museums, journals and international conferences. Inspired by the relationship between two Indianists – the Italian Angelo De Gubernatis, a teacher of Sanskrit in Florence and the Goan José Gerson da Cunha, a physician and historian in Bombay – this book discloses an India that emerged from different places, peopled by a multiplicity of voices. The institutional, intellectual and museum experience of Florentine orientalism, albeit peripheral, further enhances the debate on knowledge and colonial power that has engaged social and human sciences in recent decades.

Abstract
By analyzing the history of a photograph taken in a Bombay photo studio in 1885, this article explores notions of the production of knowledge on India and cultural dialogues, encounters, appropriations, and conflicts in colonial British India in the late nineteenth century. The photograph was taken after a Hindu religious ceremony in honour of the Italian Sanskritist Angelo de Gubernatis. Dressed as a Hindu Brahman, he is the only European photographed next to three Indian scholars, but what the image suggests of encounter and hybridity was challenged by the many written texts that reveal the conflicting dialogues that took place before and after the portrait was taken. Several factors were examined in order to decide who should and who should not be in the photograph: religion, cast, and even gender were successively discussed, before the category of "knowledge" became the bond that unified the four men who studied, taught, and wrote on India.

Chapter 1. Caught on Camera: An Introduction to Photography in Portuguese Colonial Africa -- Part I Charting the Empire: Knowledge, Control, Power -- Part I Charting the Empire: Knowledge, Control, Power -- Chapter 2. Photographing Tropical Plants in the Late Nineteenth Century: Scientific Practices and Botanical Knowledge Production -- Chapter 3. Stopping for the Camera: Photographs of the Portuguese Expedition to Báruè, Mozambique, 1902 -- Chapter 4. Ethnographic Album of Angola: Overlaps Between Photography, Knowledge and Empire (1930s–1940s) -- Chapter 5. An Africanist Photo-ethno-graphy in the Portuguese New State (1928–1974) -- Chapter 6. To See Is to Know? Anthropological Differentiations on Portuguese Colonial Photography Through the Work of Mendes Correia -- Part II Showcasing the Empire: Propaganda, Media, Exhibitions -- Chapter 7. Visions of Wildlife and Hunting in the "Sportsmen's Paradise": Exploring Photography from the Mozambique Company's Archive -- Chapter 8. Industrial Landscapes in Colonial Mozambique: Images from an Economic Magazine -- Chapter 9. To See, to Sell: The Role of the Photographic Image in Portuguese Colonial Exhibitions (1929–1940) -- Chapter 10. Images of Angola and Mozambique in the Imperial Metropolis: Photographic Exhibitions Held at the Palácio Foz (1938–1960) -- Chapter 11. Vision and violence. Black women's bodies on display (1900–1975) -- Part III Holding the Empire: Political Violence, Labour, Struggle -- Chapter 12.Images That Kill: Counterinsurgency and Photography in Angola Circa 1961 -- Chapter 13. Colonial War/Liberation Struggle in Guinea Bissau: From Personal Photographs to Public Silences -- Chapter 14. Curating the Past: Memory, History, and Private Photographs of the Portuguese Colonial Wars -- Chapter 15. Photographic Colonial Agency: The Work of Agostiniano de Oliveira at the Diamang (1948–1966) -- Chapter 16. 'Our Nightly Bread': Women and the City in Ricardo Rangel's Photographs of Lourenço Marques, Mozambique (1950s–1960s)./.