Monuments, Objects, Histories: Institutions of Art in Colonial and Post-Colonial India

Tapati Guha-Thakurta

July, 2004
Cloth, 432 pages, 132 illus
ISBN: 978-0-231-12998-5
$80.50

Introduction

The Colonial Past

1. The Empire and its Antiquities: Two pioneers and their scholarly fields

2.The Museum in the Colony: Conserving, collecting, classifying

Regional Frames

3. Interlocuting Texts and Monuments: The coming of age of the 'native' scholar

4. Between the Nation and the Region: The locations of a Bengali archaeologist

5. Wresting the Nation's Prerogative: Art history and nationalism in Bengal

National Claims

6. The Demands of Independence: From a national exhibition to a national museum

7. 'For the Greater Glory of Indian Art': Travels and travails of a Yakshi

The Embattled Present

9. Archaeology and the Monument: On two contentious sites of faith and history

8. Art History and the Nude: On art, obscenity and sexuality in contemporary India

Related Subjects

• Art History
• South Asian Studies

Series

• Cultures of History

About the Author

Tapati Guha-Thakurta is professor in history at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, The author of The Making of a New 'Indian' Art: Artists, Aesthetics, and Nationalism in Bengal, she is a specialist on the art and cultural history of modern and contemporary India.

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