Hair-um, scare-em

From the 1840s onwards, it seems, India teemed with amateur photographers eager to record the inexhaustible exotic life and scenery all about them; by the next decade, an evergrowing band of professionals had set up studios in the major cities.

Fantastical photographs abound, and many have found their way to London, yet until now the capital has never hosted a major exhibition of them.

This has been remedied with a show of 250 of the plums from the British Library (where the East India Company's collection resides) and the Howard and Jane Ricketts Collections.

Many have been hand-tinted, and the range and unfamiliarity of the images is thrilling: feast your eyes on impossibly dandyish princes, spider's-web bridges, painted tribesmen and beautiful, intricate stonework.

India: Pioneering Photographs 1850-1900; Brunei Gallery, WC1 Until 15 December Information: 020 7898 4046

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