Description |
xiv, 269 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Series |
Visual & media histories |
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Visual & media histories.
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Contents |
Preface / Monica Juneja -- Introduction / Saloni Mathur & Kavita Singh -- Part I. Inaugural formations. 1. The transformation of objects into artefacts, antiquities and art in 19th-century India / Bernard Cohn ; 2. The museum in the colony : collecting, conserving, classifying / Tapati Guha-Thakurta ; 3. Staging science / Gyan Prakash -- Part II. National re-orientations. 4. The museum is national / Kavita Singh ; 5. Grace McCann Morley and the National Museum of India / Kristy Phillips ; 6. Museumising modern art : National Gallery of Modern Art, the Indian case-study / Vidya Shivadas -- Part III. Contemporary engagements. 7. Museums are good to think : heritage on view in India / Arjun Appadurai & Carol A. Breckenridge ; 8. Remembering the rural in suburban Chennai : the artisanal pasts of DakshinaChitra / Mary Hancock ; 9. 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] / Tulay Atak [and twelve others] -- About the editors -- About the series editor -- Notes on contributors |
Summary |
"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 role in the present, as it reflects the fissured identities of the post-colonial period"--Publisher's website |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Notes |
Text in English |
Subject |
Museums -- South Asia.
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Art museums -- South Asia.
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Museums -- Social aspects -- South Asia.
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Museums -- India.
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Museums -- Social aspects -- India.
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Author |
Mathur, Saloni, editor
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Singh, Kavita, editor
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LC no. |
2015306265 |
ISBN |
9781138796010 |
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1138796018 |
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