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| Introduction |
| 1 | Introduction to photography in India |
| 2 | Introduction to early photography in India |
| Daguerreotypes |
| 3 | Daguerreotypes: Ethnic: Indians |
| Calotypes and salt prints |
| 4 | Introduction to calotypes in India |
| 5 | John Murray: Paper negatives and waxed paper negatives |
| 6 | Baron Alexis Aime de LaGrange: Photographies de l'Indie Anglais (1851) |
| Hand-coloured prints |
| 7 | Frederick Fiebig: Hand-coloured photographs of India |
| Stereoviews |
| 8 | Introduction to stereoviews in India |
| 9 | Linnaeus Tripe: Stereographs of Madura...with descriptions by the Rev. W. Tracy, M.A. (1858) |
| The Indian Mutiny and its aftermath |
| 10 | Indian Mutiny (1858): Introduction |
| 11 | The Cawnpore (Kanpur) Massacres |
| 12 | Felice Beato: Indian Mutiny (1858) - Lucknow |
| 13 | Felice Beato: Indian Mutiny (1858) - Mutineers hanged |
| 14 | Felice Beato: Indian Mutiny (1858) - Hodson's Horse |
| 15 | Robert & Harriet Tytler: India at the time of the Mutiny |
| 16 | Darogha Ubbas Alli: Sekunder Bagh, Lucknow |
| Photographic societies |
| 17 | Madras Photographic Society |
| Landscapes |
| 18 | India: Landscapes |
| Cities of India |
| 19 | John Edward Saché: Views of Calcutta (ca 1865-1882) |
| 20 | Babu Jageswar Prasad & Madho Prasad: Benares |
| Archaeological Survey of India |
| 21 | The Archaeological Survey of India |
| Archaeological sites |
| 22 | Charles Barclay Woodham Moravia: Indian architecture (1858) |
| 23 | Linnaeus Tripe |
| 24 | Richard Banner Oakeley: The Pagoda of Hallibeed (1859) |
| 25 | Major [Robert] Gill & James Fergusson: One Hundred Stereoscopic Illustrations of Architecture and Natural History in Western India (1864) |
| 26 | Thomas Biggs: Architecture at Ahmedabad, the Capital of Goozerat (1866) |
| 27 | Edmund David Lyon: Indian architecture (1860s-1860s) |
| 28 | James Fergusson: Illustrations of Various Styles of Indian Architecture (1869) |
| 29 | John Henry Ravenshaw: Gaur; its Ruins and Inscriptions (1878) |
| 30 | Lala Deen Dayal: Photographs for Sir Lepel Griffin "Famous Monuments of Central India" (1886) |
| The industrialisation of India |
| 31 | Railways of India |
| 32 | Bourne & Shepherd: India: Tea cultivation in Assam |
| Sites of India - Photographic studies |
| 33 | John P. Nicholas: India |
| 34 | Marie Théophile Louis Rousselet: India (1863-1868) |
| 35 | Eugene Clutterbuck Impey: India |
| 36 | Unidentified photographer: Views in India - Beejapoor (1870s - 1880s) |
| Sites of India - Cities and localities |
| 37 | India: Agra |
| 38 | India: Agra: Taj Mahal |
| 39 | India: Ahmedabad |
| 40 | India: Ajanta |
| 41 | India: Beejapoor [Bijapur] |
| 42 | India: Amritsar |
| 43 | India: Benares (Varanasi) |
| 44 | India: Bombay (Mumbai) |
| 45 | India: Calcutta (Kolkata) |
| 46 | India: Darjeeling |
| 47 | India: Delhi |
| 48 | India: Delhi: Qutub Minar - Qutb Minar - Kutub Minar |
| 49 | India: Ellora |
| 50 | India: Gwalior |
| 51 | India: Lucknow |
| 52 | India: Madras |
| 53 | India: Madura |
| 54 | India: Sanchi |
| 55 | India: Aurungabad |
| 56 | India: Sarnath |
| 57 | India: Simla (Shimla) |
| 58 | India: Srinagar |
| Northern India and the Himalayas |
| 59 | Samuel Bourne: Northern India and the Himalayas (1863-1870) |
| 60 | Philip Henry Egerton: Journal of a Tour Through Spiti, To The Frontier of Chinese Thibet, With Photographic Illustrations (1864) |
| 61 | Fred Bremner: Baluchistan |
| 62 | Sargeant-Major Develin, Royal Engineers: Views in Chitral, Taken during the advance of the 3rd Brigade of the Chitral Relief Force (1896) |
| Royalty and the ruling class of India |
| 63 | Bourne & Shepherd: Presentation album for His Royal Highness Alfred Ernest Albert, Duke of Edinburgh (1870) |
| 64 | Bourne & Shepherd: Bourne and Shepherd's Royal Photographic Album of Scenes and Personages connected with H.R.H. the Prince of Wales' Tour in India 1876 (1876) |
| 65 | Bourne & Shepherd: Portraits |
| 66 | Portrait: Royalty: Suvenir of the Royal Visit to India (1876) |
| 67 | Lala Deen Dayal: Presentation folio of Nawab Vikar-ul-Umra - Falaknuma Palace, Hyderabad, Deccan (1894) |
| 68 | Lala Deen Dayal: Sorabji Jehangir - Princes and Chiefs of India (1903) |
| 69 | G.W. Lawrie: Imperial Delhi Durbar (1911) |
| 70 | Portrait: Royalty: The ruling class of the Indian subcontinent |
| 71 | Maharaja Sawai Ram Singh II |
| 72 | Princess Victoria Gouramma (1841–1864) |
| People of India |
| 73 | Ethnological and anthropological studies in India |
| 74 | William J. Johnson: Photographs of Western India. Volume I. Costumes and Characters (ca. 1855-1862) |
| 75 | William Johnson & William Henderson: The Oriental races and tribes, residents and visitors of Bombay (published 1863-1866) |
| 76 | J. Forbes Watson & John William Kaye (eds.): The People of India (1868-1872) |
| 77 | William E. Marshall: Travels amongst the todas or the study of a primitive tribe in South India, their history, character, customs, religion, infanticide, polyandry, language; with outlines of the Tuda grammar (1873) |
| 78 | John P. Nicholas: India: Portraits |
| 79 | Nicholas Brothers: India: Portraits |
| 80 | Willoughby Wallace Hooper: India: Portraits |
| 81 | Francis Frith: India: portraits |
| 82 | Samuel Bourne: India: Portraits |
| 83 | Shepherd & Robertson: India: Portraits |
| 84 | Maurice Vidal Portman: Andamanese |
| 85 | Lala Deen Dayal: India: Portraits |
| Famine (1876-1878) |
| 86 | Willoughby Wallace Hooper: Indian famine (1876-1878) |
| Portraiture |
| 87 | India: Cartes de visite |
| 88 | India and the cabinet card |
| 89 | Hand-coloured photographs from the Indian sub-continent |
| Photographers |
| 90 | Colin Murray: India |
| 91 | Lala Deen Dayal: Album of 37 photographs (1887-1888) |
| Travel and photojournalism |
| 92 | Herbert Ponting: India |
| Documentary |
| 93 | Mary Ellen Mark: Falkland Road |
| Nature |
| 94 | John Edward Saché: Studies of Indian insects |
| Questioning identity |
| 95 | Annu Palakunnathu Matthew: An Indian from India |
| India viewed from the outside |
| 96 | India: As seen by external photographers |
