Indian Renaissance: British Romantic Art and the Prospect of India offers a welcome examination of the work of the many British artists active in India during the late eighteenth and into the nineteenth century—including Johann Zoffany, William Hodges, Thomas and William Daniell, Tilly Kettle, James Baillie Fraser, Arthur William Devis, and Robert Home—as well as a double-barreled thesis. The art that these men produced on the subcontinent stimulated the Romantic Movement in England, the authors believe, and, in turn, was transformed into the “cultural imperatives” of the Victorian era in Great Britain, these assertions thereby necessitating a look at artists like William Blake and J.M.W. Turner as well. Respected scholars of British Romantic literature Hermione de Almeida and George Gilpin have amassed a great deal of information, and Ashgate Press, in whose series “British Art and Visual Culture since 1750” this book is the tenth entry, has generously given them ample if not uniformly great reproductions, an expansive design, and copious wordage. Coupled with the large amount of material already published on British India, one might expect this plentitude to provide opportunities for repetitiveness. In particular, the 2004 William Hodges exhibition at the National Maritime Museum and David Cannadine’s Ornamentalism:...