Monuments, Objects, Histories Institutions of Art in Colonial and Post-Colonial India |
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| Author:
| Guha-Thakurta, Tapati |
| Series title: | Cultures of History Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-231-12998-5 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2004 |
| Publisher: | Columbia University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $105.00 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.