No touching, no spitting, no praying : the museum in South Asia /
"This volume brings together a range of essays that offer a new perspective on the dynamic history of the museum as a cultural institution in South Asia. It traces the museum from its origin as a tool of colonialism and adoption as a vehicle of sovereignty in the nationalist period, till its ro...
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| Language: | English |
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New Delhi [India] :
Routledge,
2015.
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| Series: | Visual & media histories.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Saloni Mathur, Kavita Singh
- Part I: Inaugural formations. The transformation of objects into artifacts, antiquities and art in nineteenth-century India / Bernard Cohn
- The museum in the colony: collecting, conserving, classifying / Tapati Guha-Thakurta
- Staging science / Gyan Prakash
- Part II: National re-orientations. The museum is national / Kavita Singh
- Grace McCann Morley and the display of Indian modernity / Kristy Phillips
- Museumising modern art: National Gallery of Modern Art, the Indian case-study / Vidya Shivadas
- Part III: Contemporary engagements. Museums are good to think: heritage on view in India / Arjun Appadurai, Carol A. Breckenridge
- Remembering the rural in suburban Chennai: the artisnal pasts of DakshinaChitra / Mary Hancock
- Reincarnations of the museum: the museum in an age of religious revivalism / Saloni Mathur, Kavita Singh
- Museum watching: an introduction (13 ethnographic portraits from the field)
- About the editors
- Notes on contributors.