The emergence of photography in the 1850s coincided with the beginnings of modern anthropology. The camera swiftly became the primary instrument for ethnographic investigations, and diverse communities of the Indian subcontinent were thus ‘captured’ for analysis and classification. Looking back, it is obvious that this documentation was problematic on various levels: photography had its own aesthetic conventions and was not the objective instrument that some people claimed it to be. And the nineteenth-century project to typify people into races, tribes, occupations and castes groups was a colonial enterprise driven by British perceptions and purposes. This exhibition brings critical scrutiny to the histories and errors of typecasting, and makes available the historical photographs for new interpretations by new audiences.