Introduction: Chromo Zones and the Nomadism of Colour -- Alchemy, Painting and Revolution in India, c.150-1860 -- Supplement, Subaltern Art, Design and Dyeing in Britain and South Asia, c.1851-c.1905 -- Part 1: Still Dreaming of the Blue Flower? Race, Anthropology and the Colour Sense -- Part 2: Creole Laboratory: Anthropology and Affect in the Torres Strait -- Swadeshi Colour Throughout the Philtre/Filter of Indian Nationalism, c.1905- c. 1947 -- Postscript: With a Rag and a Knife.