La deuxième partie du livre est consacrée à Antoine Polier:
Part 2 Albums of Foreign Elites: Changes and Challenges
Susan Stronge, "Chapter 6. Three Albums of Seigneur Gentil and Colonel Polier: Cultural Exchanges in Late Eighteenth-Century India", p. 117-142.
Friederike Weis, "Chapter 7. To Be Viewed from Both Ends: The Surviving Polier Albums, p. 143–186.
Malini Roy and Jake Benson, "Chapter 8. A Newly Identified Muraqqaʿ Assembled for Antoine-Louis-Henri Polier in the British Museum", p. 187–208.
Isabelle Imbert, "Chapter 9. Like a Garden Bedecked: Floral Margins in the Muraqqaʿs of Antoine Polier", p. 209–231.
