Captain Watkins and Non Com. officers
1884
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1884
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
You see a group of British officers in crisp uniforms standing with Indian soldiers in a courtyard. This isn’t just a portrait—it’s a photograph from an album made for a British official in India. The men pose stiffly, but the image quietly shows how colonial power worked: who stood where, who wore what. The photographer, Raja Deen Dayal, was one of the first Indian artists to document this world with a camera. To see more of his work, look up Raja Deen Dayal (Indian, 1844–1905).
