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Title No touching, no spitting, no praying : the museum in South Asia / editors, Saloni Mathur and Kavita Singh
Published New Delhi : Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2015

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Description xiv, 269 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Series Visual & media histories
Visual & media histories.
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.
Art museums -- South Asia.
Museums -- Social aspects -- South Asia.
Museums -- India.
Museums -- Social aspects -- India.
Author Mathur, Saloni, editor
Singh, Kavita, editor
LC no. 2015306265
ISBN 9781138796010
1138796018