The volume presents forty-eight contemporary artists and collectives working in dialogue with the long history and emergent future of India and its people. Its themes include caste and class, the partitioning of the subcontinent, gender and sexuality, activism and conflict, racism, religion, nationalism, new technologies and development, the environment, human settlement, migration and integration.

“As a large, multilingual subcontinent, India has always relied on images to maintain a cohesive whole across myriad subcultures, regions, castes and languages. The introduction of photomechanical imaging in the nineteenth century enabled the rapid reproduction and dissemination of both spiritual and scientific ideals. The medium for most of its history was too expensive and technical, and was left in the hands of experts, until the birth of digital technologies.” — Sunil Gupta