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9780231129985

Monuments, Objects, Histories

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  • ISBN13:

    9780231129985

  • ISBN10:

    023112998X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2004-06-10
  • Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

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Summary

-- Vidya Dehejia, Columbia University

Author Biography

Tapati Guha-Thakurta is professor of history at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction xvii
PART I The Colonial Past
The Empire and its Antiquities: Two Pioneers and their Scholarly Fields
3(40)
The Museum in the Colony: Collecting, Conserving, Classifying
43(42)
PART II Regional Frames
Interlocuting Texts and Monuments: The Coming of Age of the ``Native'' Scholar
85(27)
Between the Nation and the Region: The Locations of a Bengali Archaeologist
112(28)
Wresting the Nation's Prerogative: Art History and Nationalism in Bengal
140(35)
PART III National Claims
The Demands of Independence: from a National Exhibition to a National Museum
175(30)
``For the Greater Glory of Indian Art'': Travels and Travails of a Yakshi
205(32)
PART IV The Embattled Present
Art History and the Nude: on Art, Obscenity, and Sexuality in Contemporary India
237(31)
Archaeology and the Monument: on two Contentious Sites of Faith and History
268(37)
Notes 305(68)
Bibliography 373(20)
Index 393

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