Dr Jennifer Howes

LECTURE

Fort St George to Srirangapatna: Lady Clive's journey, 1800.

Part of the Tamil Heritage Trust's Indology Festival, 20 June 2025.  

Watch HERE (skip to 1h 27 min)

MY NEW BOOK 

The Art of A Corporation: The East India Company as Patron and Collector 

This book examines the East India Company's complex history through the artworks it corporately collected in London. Now available in paperback! Chapter one is free open access. 

EXHIBITION  (April -June 2025) 

A Treasury of Life: Indian Company Paintings, c.1790-1835. Curated by Giles Tillotson at DAG,  New Delhi.

I researched part of this exhibition and contributed a chapter to its catalogue. 

ARTICLE  

"Tipu Sultan's Female Entourage under East India Company Rule." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (31.4).  

What happened when the British placed these women under house arrest after Tipu Sultan's death?