Monuments, objects, histories
Subtitle: institutions of art in colonial and postcolonial India
By: Tapati Guha-Thakurta.
Publisher: Permanent Black; Distributed by Orient Longman Private
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Delhi; Bangalore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
Subjects: Nationalism and art -- India -- History -- 19th century.; Nationalism and art -- India -- History -- 20th century.; Art -- Historiography.; Archaeology -- Research -- India -- History.; Art, Indic.; India -- Colonial influence.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-391) and index.
Table of contents: value: Part I. The colonial past. The empire and its antiquities : two pioneers and their scholarly fields ; The museum in the colony : collecting, conserving, classifying; value: Part II. Regional Frames. Interlocuting texts and monuments : the coming of age of the "native" scholar ; Between the nation and the region : the locations of a Bengali archaeologist ; Wresting the nation's prerogative : art history and nationalism in Bengal; value: Part III. National claims. The demands of independence : from a national exhibition to a national museum ; "For the greater glory of Indian art" : travels and travails of a Yakshi; value: Part IV. The embattled present. Art history and the nude : on art, obscenity, and sexuality in contemporary india ; Archaeology and the monument : on two contentious sites of faith and history.