Translating museums : a counterhistory of South Asian museology (Record no. 46172)
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| fixed length control field | 02888 a2200181 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781611321456 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 069 |
| Item number | BHA |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Bhatti, Shaila |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Translating museums : a counterhistory of South Asian museology |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | California |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Left Coast Press Inc |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2012 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 300p. |
| 440 ## - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE | |
| Title | Critical Cultural heritage series Ed.by Beverley Butler |
| Volume number/sequential designation | Vol.9 |
| 9 (RLIN) | 54078 |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | CONTENTS<br/>List of Illustrations 11<br/>Note on Translation and Transliteration 13<br/>Abbreviations 15<br/>Acknowledgments 17<br/>Prologue<br/>Lahore 19<br/>The Lahore Museum: Ajaib Ghar 22<br/>Comparative Museologies 26<br/>Museological Narrative 28<br/>1. Museums in Translation: The Birth of the Museum in Colonial India 33<br/>The Ajaib Ghar 33<br/>Museumisation of Colonial India: Making India Visible 51<br/>A Central Museum for Punjab—A Baradari, an Exhibition, and a Jubilee 53<br/>Baradari 54<br/>An Exhibition 56<br/>The Jubilee Institute 68<br/>The Lahore Museum in Indian Hands 74<br/>Imperial Museum Spirit and the Trinity of the Lahore Museum 77<br/>2. Colonial Mementos to Postcolonial Imaginings: The Transformation of the Lahore Museum 83<br/>A National Narrative for the Ajaib Ghar 83<br/>Partition and Pakistan 86<br/>Splitting Mementos 92<br/>Curators/Caretakers 92<br/>Ejaz Ali 94<br/>Collections/Objects 97<br/>The Chandigarh Connection 99<br/>Trapped by the Colonial Shadow: Decolonising the Lahore Museum 101<br/>The Islamic Gallery 104<br/>The Independence Movement Gallery 106<br/>The Postcolonial Prescriptive: Personalities and Ideologies 112<br/>3. Museum Archons: The Habitual Discourse of the Lahore Museum 117<br/>The Material Archive 117<br/>The Lahore Museum’s Museology 119<br/>The (Un)Socialised Museum: Habitual Discourse and Museopolitik 125<br/>Global Consciousness 125<br/>Pakistani Museums/Museology 127<br/>Habitual Praxis and Discourse 131<br/>Educating Heritage 135<br/>Tours, Texts, Lectures, and Quizzes 138<br/>Guided Tours 138<br/>Texts 140<br/>Lectures 140<br/>Museum Quiz 141<br/>Archival Allure 142<br/>4. Visiting the Museum: Curiosity about the Ajaib Ghar 145<br/>Wandering Visitors 146<br/>Refusal of the Colonial Gaze 152<br/>The Zoo of Objects 157<br/>The Subjective Museum 160<br/>Vernacularising the Lahore Museum 162<br/>What Class of Visitors? 163<br/>Pseudocurators 167<br/>Familiar, Attractive, and Wondrous 168<br/>History and Cultural Heritage, but Not My Identity 182<br/>5. Nokta Nazar of the Lahore Museum’s ‘Audience’ 189<br/>Attractions and the Museum Spirit 190<br/>The Museum ‘Eye’ 194<br/>South Asian Scopophilia 198<br/>Darshan/Dekhna 198<br/>Nazar 200<br/>Corpothetics 203<br/>Interocular 205<br/>‘Museums of Everyday Life’ 207<br/>The Everyday: Television 208<br/>The Imaginary: Cinema 211<br/>The Novel: Bazaars 214<br/>The Enduring: Saints’ Shrines 218<br/>Have Museums Ever Been Modern? 224<br/>Epilogue 227<br/>Glossary 233<br/>Notes 239<br/>References 279<br/>Index 299<br/>About the Author 301<br/> |
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| 9 (RLIN) | 51127 |
| 890 ## - Country | |
| Country | California |
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| Topic | General |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | CEPT Library | CEPT Library | 13/03/2018 | Natraj Book Centre | 1769.00 | 3 | 069 BHA | 017917 | 11/10/2023 | 11/10/2023 | 2527.47 | 22/06/2017 | Book |