UID:
edocfu_9958351981902883
Format:
1 online resource (432 pages) :
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illustrations.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, 2004. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Edition:
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ISBN:
9780231503518
Series Statement:
Cultures of History
Content:
This book offers both an insider and outsider perspective, moving from a period that saw the consolidation of western expertise and custodianship of India's "antiquities," to the projection over the twentieth century of varying regional, nativist and national claims around the country's archaeological, architectural and artistic inheritance, into a present time that has pitted these objects and fields within a highly contentious politics of nationhood.
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Frontmatter --
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CONTENTS --
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS --
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --
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INTRODUCTION --
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1. The empire and its antiquities: Two pioneers and their scholarly fields --
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2. The museum in the colony: Collecting, conserving, classifying --
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3. Interlocuting texts and monuments: The coming of age of the "native" scholar --
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4. Between the nation and the region: The locations of a bengali archaeologist --
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5. Wresting the nation's prerogative: Art history and nationalism in bengal --
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6. The demands of independence: From a national exhibition to a national museum --
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7. "For the greater glory of indian art": Travels and tray ails of a yakshi --
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8. Art history and the nude: On art, obscenity, and sexuality in contemporary India --
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9. Archaeology and the monument: On two contentious sites of faith and history --
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Notes --
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Bibliography --
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Index.
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In English.
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.7312/guha12998
