New Cultural Histories of India |
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Editor:
| Chatterjee, Partha Guha-Thakurta, Tapati Kar, Bodhisattva |
ISBN: | 978-0-19-809037-3 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2014 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $75.00 |
Book Description:
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This book examines the new orientations in the writing of cultural histories of India from the pre-colonial and early modern period to the postcolonial and contemporary era. It analyses the 'materialist' turn through wide-ranging textual, visual, aural, ritual, and spatial resources like eighteenth-century scribal literature in western India, art deco architecture in twentieth century Calcutta, circulating heads in Naga hills, and Mayawati's monuments in Lucknow.
This book examines the new orientations in the writing of cultural histories of India from the pre-colonial and early modern period to the postcolonial and contemporary era. It analyses the 'materialist' turn through wide-ranging textual, visual, aural, ritual, and spatial resources like eighteenth-century scribal literature in western India, art deco architecture in twentieth century Calcutta, circulating heads in Naga hills, and Mayawati's monuments in Lucknow.