Monuments, objects, histories institutions of art in colonial and post-colonial India
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Columbia University Press
2004
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| Series: | Cultures of history
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 432 Seiten : Ill. |
| ISBN: | 0-231-12998-X |