Contents
Vol.70,No.1,Sep.-Dec. 2018
Documentory now Edited by Ravi Vasudevan
Introduction by Ravi Vasudevan14
Passages in time
A Way of Being in the World Shohini Ghosh in conversation with Ravi Vasudevan 20
Record, replay: Imaging Technology and the Post-Digital Representation of the Real by Avijit Mukul Kishore 26
Then and now
Hospitality in the Time of Regulation: 1970s Films Division Tourism Shorts by Priya Jaikumar 32
Death by Water: Environmental Documentaries, a Brief Overview by Veena Hariharan 36
Metabolisms of the Feminist Archive and the Nowness of Yugantar (1980–83) by Nicole Wolf 42
The Hiss and Scratch of Time by Ruchir Joshi 50
On documentary practice
Embracing Doubt by Amar Kanwar 56
Seeing, Being and Belonging by Rahul Roy 66
Reflections on "the Political" in Indian Documentary Films by Surabhi Sharma 72
Documentary as Pedagogic Practice by Sameera Jain 78
Truth in the world of video
Video News Magazine as Documentary Evidence: The Case of Kalchakra by Ishita Tiwary 86
Sting Videos: Everydayness as Truth-Aesthetic by Shaunak Sen 90
Experiment, exhibit, imagine
Experimenta India: Curating and Exhibiting Experimental Film, Video and Moving Image in India by Anuja Jain 96
The Work of Freedom in a World of Images by Pallavi Paul 100
Photo essay
Notebook of Geographies 2018 Desire Machine Collective 104
Contributors 114
Vol.70,No.2,Dec.2018-March 2019
The Weight of a Petal : Ars Botanica Edited by Sita Reddy
Ars Botanica: Refiguring the Botanical Art Archive by Sita Reddy 14
Flowers in Mughal Architecture by Ebba Koch 24
Moochies, Gudigars and Other Chitrakars: Their Contribution to 19th-Century Botanical Art and Science by H.J. Noltie 34
Illustrating Plants at the Tanjore Court by Savithri Preetha Nair 44
Notes on manuscripts
Jardin de Lorixa by Kapil Raj 52
The Gurney Herbal by Savithri Preetha Nair 54
Hortus Indicus Malabaricus by Sita Reddy 58
Archival spotlight
The Roxburgh Icones in the Kolkata Botanic Garden by Santhosh Kr. Sakhinala 64
The Botanical Gallery in the Indian Museum by Santhosh Kr. Sakhinala 68
Lalbagh Botanical Drawings by Suresh Jayaram 70
Marianne North's Sacred Hindu Plants at Kew Gardens by
Michelle Payne 73
Joseph Dalton Hooker and Indian Botanical Art at Kew Gardens by
Cam Sharp Jones 77
The Buchanan-Hamilton Collection of Botanical Drawings at the Linnaen Society of London by H.J. Noltie and Mark Watson 81
The Hands that Painted Plants of the Coast of Coromandel by Meghan Lambert 85
Palms at the Blatter Herbarium by Lina Vincent 89
Harvard's Blaschka Glass Flowers by Rishika Mehrishi 92
Jagadish Chandra Bose and Plant Autographs by Emilia Terracciano 94
Contemporary botanical art
Sunoj D., Rohini Devasher, Meena Subramaniam, Damodar Lal Gurjar, Mahaveer Swami,Waswo X. Waswo and R. Vijay 98
Botanical art exhibitions
The Lost Plants Archive by Ranjit Kandalgaonkar 110
Such Treasure and Rich Merchandize by Annamma Spudich 112
Botanical Dispersals in Ayurvedic Man by Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz 114
Artist's pages
Run by Simryn Gill 116
Contributors 120
Vol.70,No.3,March 2019
Stating Change : Theatre in India Edited by Anuradha Kapur
Introduction by Anuradha Kapur 14
Genealogy and Overwriting by Anuradha Kapur
Intersections of Practice and Pedagogy: The National School of Drama by Kirti Jain 24
Personal Reflections on Ebrahim Alkazi and B.V. Karanth by Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry 36
India’s Postdramatic: Conversations with Theatre-Makers and a Critique by Ashis Sengupta 46
Politics of Location: A View of Theatrical Contemporaneity in India by Gargi Bharadwaj 64
Hybridity and Regional Visions in Contemporary Theatre in Kerala by Abhilash Pillai 76
Contemporary Theatre Practice in Manipur: A Reckoning by Trina Nileena Banerjee 82
Grandeur and Simplicity: The Spectrum of Performance Practices in Assam by Trina Nileena Banerjee 92
Polyrhythmia and Circus-Theatre in the Contemporary: Notes on Talatum by Ameet Parameswaran 98
Contributors
Inside front cover and pages 1-9: Thematic ad-portfolio on contemporary Indian theatre by Mrinalini Vasudevan 108
Vol.70,No.4,June 2019
Gandhara: A Confluence of Cultures Edited by: Naman P. Ahuja
Introduction by Naman P. Ahuja 12
Bronze Age Relationships between Central Asia and the Indus: Archaeology, Language and Genetics by Benjamin Mutin and Henri-Paul Francfort 14
One Mother, Many Mother Tongues by Naman P. Ahuja 32
Tope Kelan and the Stupa Cult in Hadda by Wannaporn Kay Rienjang 52
The Sakra Sites and Their Enigmatic Coins by Waleed Ziad 62
The Hund Statues: Recent Discoveries between Gandhara and Kashmir
By Michael Henss 72
The Histories in Between: Afghanistan’s Religious and Material Cultures by
Alka Patel 84
Gandhara’s Heritage in Pakistan: Research and Conservation by Abdul Rehman 98
Book Review 106
Arts of the Hellenized East: Precious Metalwork and Gems of the Pre-Islamic Era, by Martha L. Carter et al. by Naman P. Ahuja
Contributors 108
Inside front cover and pages 1–7: Thematic ad-portfolio on War Rugs by Naman P. Ahuja
Vol.71,No.1,Sep.2019
Infrastructure as Space: Development and Its (Dis)Contents
Edited by Himanshu Burte
Rethinking the Space of lnfrastructure by Himanshu Burte 12
Fragmented States: "Modernizing" Northeast India by Duncan Mcduie-Ra 20
The Labours of a Park: Green Infrastructure in Bangalore by Annapurna Garimella 28
Overwriting Historic Space in Modern Cities by A.G. Krishna Menon 38
Will Not Speed By: Contestations around India's First Bullet Train Project by
Nirali Joshi 46
Coastal Citizenship: Livelihoods, "Development" and Spatial Literacy by
Sudarshan Rodriguez 54
Nature as Foundational Infrastructure by Mohan Rao 62
The Pay-and-Use Toilet: Houseless Migrants and Infrastructural Exclusions by
Renu Desai 72
A City for the Imagination by Gautam Bhatia 80
The Urban Soundscape: A Speculative Aesthetic by Gautam Pemmaraju 88
Contributors 96
Vol.71,No.2,Dec.2019
Gandhi & Aesthetics Edited by Tridip Suhrud
Art as Namasmaran : The Aesthetics of Gandhi by Tridip Suhrud 12
In the Footsteps of Spectres: The Aesthetics of Gandhi’s Walks by Harmony Siganporia 20
Gandhi’s Hindi and His Aesthetics of Poverty by Sudhir Chandra 28
Music for the Congregation: Assembling an Aesthetic for Prayer by Lakshmi Subramanian 36
Architecture as Weak Thought: Gandhi Inhabits Nothingness by Venugopal Maddipati 44
The Long Walk to Freedom” : Gandhi’s Ashrampatti Chappals by Jutta Jain-Neubauer 52
A Biography in Prints: Gandhi and the Visual Imaginary by Vinay Lal 58
Reducing Myself to Zero: The Art of Aparigraha by Sumathi Ramaswamy 68
Ark, Saint, City, Cipher: The Gandhi of Gulammohammed Sheikh by Ananya Vajpeyi 80
Contributors 88
Volume 71 Number 3,March 2020
Art & Ecology
Thematic Ad-Portfolio: Positing Ecology in Public Art by Noopur Desai 1
Editorial Note by Latika Gupta 10
Introduction by Ravi Agarwal , Latika Gupta 12
Anthropocene India: The Art of Building New Worlds by T.J. Demos 16
The Killing of Maya in a Lake: Caste, Nature and Culture by Mukul Sharma 28
“The trees are always singing”: Ritualization as Ecological Strategy by
Jyotindra Jain 36
A Tree Grows in a Painting: Tribal Artists and the Museum by Annapurna Garimella 40
Nature and Gender: Myth vs Realityby Bina Agarwal 52
“Maha Dukh” or the Epic Sadness of the Capitalocene by Nancy Adajania 62
Scenes from the Ocean: Feminist Interventions in Ecology by Heather Davis 71
Solastalgia, the Anthropocene, and Indian Contemporary Art by Maya Kóvskaya 78
Yinchuan Biennale 2018: A Re-enchanted Model of an Exhibition by
Marco Scotini and Zasha Colah 90
Vol. 71 No. 4, June 2020
Art & Conflict
Thematic Ad-Portfolio: Rethinking Museums for Risk Societies by
Anushka Rajendran 1
Editorial Note by Mrinalini Vasudevan 10
Introduction by Glenn D. Lowry 12
Conflict, Destruction and the Rebirth of Art by Glenn D. Lowry in Conversation with Homi K. Bhabha 16
Conflict: Can Museums Tell Us Why? By Naman P. Ahuja 26 Architecture in Silent Conflict in Sri Lanka by Channa Daswatte 38
Territories of Conflict: Monuments and Memorial Culture in Socialist Yugoslavia by Martino Stierli 46
A Million Mutinies Now: Art and Architecture in Conflict in 1970s’ India by
Devika Singh 56
Jis tann lãgé soee jãné: The 1984 Pogrom by Gauri Gill 66
The (Anti) Aesthetics of Emergency by Hal Foster 80
An American Scene: Aaron Douglas and Aspects of Negro Life by Leah Dickerman 84
Design and Violence by Paola Antonelli 94
Vol.72,No.2,Dec.2020
Pandemic as Muse Thematic Ad-Portfolio 1
Notes and Queries Editorial 11
At the core 14
The Contemporary : Half Uttered, Half Silent
Art’s Affirming Power
In conservation with Shubigi Rao
Surrounded by Silence Curated by K. Satchidanandan 26
Art & the Political Moment 36
Two Voices
Seher Shah Pakistani American artist
Glenn D. Lowry Director, Museum of Modern Art, New York
In Focus
Cultural Wellbeing : Policy Matters?
States of Cultures 55
Abhijit Sengupta
Policy changes from the Chairman of India's 2014 HighPowered Committee (Culture)
A Report that Got Buried 59
Salima Hashmi The artist-academic on her father, poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz's cultural vision for Pakistan
The Vital Non-Material 65
Thakur S. Powdyel
Bhutan's former education minister on the Gross National Happiness
paradigm
Speaking for the Artist 73
Junhi Han The culture chief at UNESCO, New Delhi revisits the 1980
Recommendation on the Status of the Artist
Marg Salon 78
Is Art National Property or a Common?
Conversation with Probir Gupta , Atteqa Ali , Daisy Yiyou Wang , Debottam Bose
On The Marg Archives Curated by Indira Chowdhury
Art Criticism Mark of the Conceptual? 86
Karthik Kalyanaraman, Raghava KK
Art and Science 96
Where Art History and Genetics Meet
Ive De Smet and David Vergauwen
History’s Place in Art Science 105
Jahnavi Phalkey
Art Education 110
Arts, Educational Policy, Government Schools
Anmol Vellani
Art History 116
Decoding Design on Changsha Ceramics
Mohsen Jaafarnia , Ji Tie , Sahar Boroomand , Avinash Shende , Seyed Hashem Mosaddad , Mohsen Saffardezfooli
The Bengal School’s Unsung Women Artists 127
Shilpi Das
Redefining “Indianness” in Indian Art—1940s to ‘60s 135
Sraman Mukherjee
Contributors 144
Vol.72,No.3,March 2021 Revitalizing pertormance traditions thematic ad-portfolio 1
Notes and queries 11
Performing the present/playing many parts
Farmers’ Protest: Expressions in courage 14
Alok Bhalla
Vikas Rawal
Alok Bhalla
Kedarnath Singh
Sujit Patar
Aprana Caur
Sahej Rahal
Probir Gupta
Payal Jaggi
Are We Merely Players? 31
Theatre director Sunil Shanbag rethinks the post-lockdown performance space
The Classical and the Contemporary 39
Musician and academic Sumangala conversation with Alarmel Valli and T.M. Krishna
In focus
Nurturing Communities/Repurposing Museums
The museum today and beyond 50
International experts discuss future scenarios
Envisioning Hybrid futures for the museums 53
Art historian Alka Pande’s case for a modern-day “ajaib ghar”
The museum as changemaker 64
Lecture and consultant John Reeve on key challenges facing museums
Museums for our times : memories, ideas, practices 74
Seven innovative voices in the Indian museum space
Marg Salon 98
What is “Contemporary” in dance?
Dance choreographers Sasha Waltz, Akram Khan and Navteg Singh speak to Marg
On the Marg Archives 139
Curated by Indira Chowdhury Pathways to engaging with crafts
Academic-artist Nina Sabnani on the chasm between artisan and intelligentsia
Homage from Marg 149
Books of the Quarter
The future of the museum: 28 dialogues by Andras Szanto 82
Quest for coomaraswamy : a life in the arts by Pratapaditya Pal 84
Profiles in Context
Kapila Vatsyayan,Voice of an Era Gone by independent journalist Renu Ramanath on the nation-building legacy of a leading scholar 88
Naseeruddin Shah:the Actor as Role Chiseller
Freelance journalist Méher Pestonji on the unpromising beginnings of a famous actor 91
Art studies
Art Education 114
Contemporary Dance in Times of Transition
Movement art expert Jayachandran Palazhy explores critical aspects of dance pedagogy
Art and science 122
Neuroaesthetics of Raaga Music
Neuroscientist and musician Deepti Navaratna on the brain's perception of music
Art history 128
Sassanid Design Journeys
Six scholars on the influence of Persian design motifs on India and China
Vol.72,No.4,June 2021
Notes and Queries 3
The Age of NFTs Thematic Ad-Portfolio 6
Let's Talk 12
Design for Living •••
A counter-intuitive conversation on design with Mulk Raj Anand
At the core
Hearts and Hands: Design after the Pandemic
What is Artful Design?
An interview with Ge Wang 22
Comics in a Brave 28
New World
Francesca Cotta
An Ecosystem for Innovation 33
Sanandan Sudhir
In Focus
Disruptive Designs,
Holistic Futures
Inclusion Matters 40
Six responses on the power of disruptive design:
Kemi Yemi-Ese
Soumita Basu
Shivani Gupta
Divya Arora
Prayas Abhinav
Governance by Design 48
Priti Rao
A Place of Joy 53
A photo essay by Vicky Roy
Retrospectives
Eames+ India: Three Design Lessons & a Provocation by Daniel Ostroff 61
Design: Reflections on the Journal of Indian Modernism by Ram Rahman 67
Uncovered: Satyajit Ray's Book Cover Designs by Pinaki De 75
Book of the quarter 82
Sayed Haider Raza: The Journey of an Iconic Artist
Yashodhara Dalmia
Salon
Can We Design for Universal Dignity?
A conversation with V.R. Ferose, Shivani Gupta and Siddhantt Shah 84
Art studies
Art criticism 94
Art, Ableism and Access by Devika Sundar
Art and science 102
Picturing the Invisible
Balram Sankaran and Sunitha Chandran
Art as a Toolkit for Data Science
Lian Zhu and Yogesh Goyal
Art education 110
Education as Art by Charlotte Emma Leech
Art history 118
When South Asia Invented its Arch by Sara Keller
On the Marg Archives 127
Curated by Indira Chowdhury NID and a Context for Design by Shilpa Das
Contributors 138
Contents 2021
Vol.72,No.2,Dec.2020
Pandemic as Muse Thematic Ad-Portfolio 1
Notes and Queries Editorial 11
At the core 14
The Contemporary : Half Uttered, Half Silent
Art’s Affirming Power
In conservation with Shubigi Rao
Surrounded by Silence Curated by K. Satchidanandan 26
Art & the Political Moment 36
Two Voices
Seher Shah Pakistani American artist
Glenn D. Lowry Director, Museum of Modern Art, New York
In Focus
Cultural Wellbeing : Policy Matters?
States of Cultures 55
Abhijit Sengupta
Policy changes from the Chairman of India's 2014 HighPowered Committee (Culture)
A Report that Got Buried 59
Salima Hashmi The artist-academic on her father, poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz's cultural vision for Pakistan
The Vital Non-Material 65
Thakur S. Powdyel
Bhutan's former education minister on the Gross National Happiness
paradigm
Speaking for the Artist 73
Junhi Han The culture chief at UNESCO, New Delhi revisits the 1980
Recommendation on the Status of the Artist
Marg Salon 78
Is Art National Property or a Common?
Conversation with Probir Gupta , Atteqa Ali , Daisy Yiyou Wang , Debottam Bose
On The Marg Archives Curated by Indira Chowdhury
Art Criticism Mark of the Conceptual? 86
Karthik Kalyanaraman, Raghava KK
Art and Science 96
Where Art History and Genetics Meet
Ive De Smet and David Vergauwen
History’s Place in Art Science 105
Jahnavi Phalkey
Art Education 110
Arts, Educational Policy, Government Schools
Anmol Vellani
Art History 116
Decoding Design on Changsha Ceramics
Mohsen Jaafarnia , Ji Tie , Sahar Boroomand , Avinash Shende , Seyed Hashem Mosaddad , Mohsen Saffardezfooli
The Bengal School’s Unsung Women Artists 127
Shilpi Das
Redefining “Indianness” in Indian Art—1940s to ‘60s 135
Sraman Mukherjee
Contributors 144
Vol.72,No.3,March 2021 Revitalizing pertormance traditions thematic ad-portfolio 1
Notes and queries 11
Performing the present/playing many parts
Farmers’ Protest: Expressions in courage 14
Alok Bhalla
Vikas Rawal
Alok Bhalla
Kedarnath Singh
Sujit Patar
Aprana Caur
Sahej Rahal
Probir Gupta
Payal Jaggi
Are We Merely Players? 31
Theatre director Sunil Shanbag rethinks the post-lockdown performance space
The Classical and the Contemporary 39
Musician and academic Sumangala conversation with Alarmel Valli and T.M. Krishna
In focus
Nurturing Communities/Repurposing Museums
The museum today and beyond 50
International experts discuss future scenarios
Envisioning Hybrid futures for the museums 53
Art historian Alka Pande’s case for a modern-day “ajaib ghar”
The museum as changemaker 64
Lecture and consultant John Reeve on key challenges facing museums
Museums for our times : memories, ideas, practices 74
Seven innovative voices in the Indian museum space
Marg Salon 98
What is “Contemporary” in dance?
Dance choreographers Sasha Waltz, Akram Khan and Navteg Singh speak to Marg
On the Marg Archives 139
Curated by Indira Chowdhury Pathways to engaging with crafts
Academic-artist Nina Sabnani on the chasm between artisan and intelligentsia
Homage from Marg 149
Books of the Quarter
The future of the museum: 28 dialogues by Andras Szanto 82
Quest for coomaraswamy : a life in the arts by Pratapaditya Pal 84
Profiles in Context
Kapila Vatsyayan,Voice of an Era Gone by independent journalist Renu Ramanath on the nation-building legacy of a leading scholar 88
Naseeruddin Shah:the Actor as Role Chiseller
Freelance journalist Méher Pestonji on the unpromising beginnings of a famous actor 91
Art studies
Art Education 114
Contemporary Dance in Times of Transition
Movement art expert Jayachandran Palazhy explores critical aspects of dance pedagogy
Art and science 122
Neuroaesthetics of Raaga Music
Neuroscientist and musician Deepti Navaratna on the brain's perception of music
Art history 128
Sassanid Design Journeys
Six scholars on the influence of Persian design motifs on India and China
Vol.72,No.4,June 2021
Notes and Queries 3
The Age of NFTs Thematic Ad-Portfolio 6
Let's Talk 12
Design for Living •••
A counter-intuitive conversation on design with Mulk Raj Anand
At the core
Hearts and Hands: Design after the Pandemic
What is Artful Design?
An interview with Ge Wang 22
Comics in a Brave 28
New World
Francesca Cotta
An Ecosystem for Innovation 33
Sanandan Sudhir
In Focus
Disruptive Designs,
Holistic Futures
Inclusion Matters 40
Six responses on the power of disruptive design:
Kemi Yemi-Ese
Soumita Basu
Shivani Gupta
Divya Arora
Prayas Abhinav
Governance by Design 48
Priti Rao
A Place of Joy 53
A photo essay by Vicky Roy
Retrospectives
Eames+ India: Three Design Lessons & a Provocation by Daniel Ostroff 61
Design: Reflections on the Journal of Indian Modernism by Ram Rahman 67
Uncovered: Satyajit Ray's Book Cover Designs by Pinaki De 75
Book of the quarter 82
Sayed Haider Raza: The Journey of an Iconic Artist
Yashodhara Dalmia
Salon
Can We Design for Universal Dignity?
A conversation with V.R. Ferose, Shivani Gupta and Siddhantt Shah 84
Art studies
Art criticism 94
Art, Ableism and Access by Devika Sundar
Art and science 102
Picturing the Invisible
Balram Sankaran and Sunitha Chandran
Art as a Toolkit for Data Science
Lian Zhu and Yogesh Goyal
Art education 110
Education as Art by Charlotte Emma Leech
Art history 118
When South Asia Invented its Arch by Sara Keller
On the Marg Archives 127
Curated by Indira Chowdhury NID and a Context for Design by Shilpa Das
Contributors 138
Vol.73,No.1,Sep.2021
At the core: Basic Needs as Art
Asian Aromas from India's Cauldron by Pushpesh Pant 14
Identity and Freedom in Asian Textiles by Jaya Jaitly 20
Shelter: Architecture and We by Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi 27
In focus: Emerging Perspectives on the Arts in South Asia
Re-imaging South Asia: A Lens on Collectives by Rahaab Allana 38
Geoaesthetics and Embodied Devotion in Braj by Sugata Ray 47
Indian English Drama's Missing Female Gaze by Kanika Batra 56
Art studies
Art history
The Strange and the Sacred in a Chance Meeting by Alok Bhalla 64
Art education
Art's Liberating Possibilities by Riyas Komu
On the marg archives
Keyt's Land Without Borders by Sasanka Perera 88
Contributors 96
Homage from Marg 98
Vol.73,No.2,Dec.2021-March 2022
Section I 12
Temple Studies: Changing Perspectives by Naman P. Ahuja
Section II 16
The House Of God
Reflections On The House And Body Of God by Stella Kramrisch
Visualizing The Gods
Gilles Tarabout
Chidambara Rahasya : The Secret Of Chidambaram by B. Natarajan
Bhadramandalas: Invoking Divinities In Smarta Ritual by Gudrun Buhnemann
Section Ill 38
On Such Foundations: 4th-7th Centuries
Roots, Relations And Relevance: The Chalukyan Backdrop by S. Settar
What's In A Name? Rethinking 'Caves' by Phyllis Granoff
Bhitargaon: The Technique Of Architecture by R. Nath
The Gupta Art of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh by R.N. Misra
Elephanta
A Select Portfolio By Muriel Neff
Ellora Cave 16 And The Cult Of The Twelve Jyotirlingas by Benjamin J. Fleming
Section IV 94
Variety And Patronage: 7th To 14th Century
Patron, Artist And Temple: An Introduction by Vidya Dehejia
Temples In Kutch: Symphony In Stone A Select Portfolio By M.A. Dhaky
Scholar-Emperor And A Funerary Temple-Eleventh Century Bhojpur
A Select Portfolio By Kirit Mankodi
Living Beyond Death: Chola Sepulchres
A Select Portfolio By Pradeep Chakravarthy
Two Chalukya Queens And Their Commemorative Temples-Eighth
Century Pattadakal
A Select Portfolio By Carol Radcliffe Bolon
The Hoysala Star-Shaped Plan
A Select Portfolio By Carmel Berkso
Riverside Shrines At Talakad And Somnathpur
A Select Portfolio By Kelleson Collyer
Ganga Monarch And A Monumental Sun Temple-Thirteenth Century
Orissa by Thomas E. Donaldson
Architecture And Royal Authority Under The Early Sangamas by Phillip B. Wagoner
Temples Of Kanara
A Select Portfolio By John Henry Rice
Stone Temples: Ancient Kashmir
A Select Portfolio By Robert E. Fisher
Kalachuri Monarch And His Circular Shrine Of The Yoginis by Vidya Dehejia
Section V 140
Pious And Urbane: The Temple And Its Denizens
Temple Towns Of Tamil Nadu: Introduction by George Michell
Water In South Indian Temples: Tirthas, Tanks And Vasantamandapas by Anila Verghese
Chariot Panels From Tamil Nadu
A Select Portfolio By George Michell
The Living Traditions: The Maharis and the Gotipuas by Sunil Kothari
Bharata Natya Sastra: The 108 Karanas
A Select Portfolio By P. Srinivasulu Naidu
Chidambaram And The Dance Of Shiva In South Indian Myth And Poetry by Indira Viswanathan Peterson
Shades Of Eroticism In Temple Art by Devangana Desai
Celebrating Shiva At Pashupati
A Select Portfolio By Tim Ward
Section VI 194
Asian Connections
Cambodia, Champa And Laos
Preliminary By Tara Ali Baig
Notes On Sculptures By Jean Boisselier & Victor Golobeuw
Beyond The Politics Of Conquest: Brahmanical Iconography In Polonnaruva by R. Mahalakshmi
A Javanese Interpretation Of The Story Of Rama On The Prambanan
Temple
Alessandra Iyer
Indic Epics In Khmer Art: Narrative Reliefs of Baphuon by Rachel Loizeau
Section VII 224
14th-18th Century Shifts
Towers Of Devotion At Orchha And Beyond
A Select Portfolio By Edward Leland Rothfarb
The Temples Of Eastern Bengal
A Select Portfolio By S. Mookerjee
Temple Terracotta Decoration: Monumental And Vernacular
Traditions In Bengal
A Select Portfolio By George Michell
Orissan Art In The Evolution Of Post-Classical Indian Culture
A Select Portfolio By Klaus Fischer
Temple Styles In Banaras by George Michell
Amber And Jaipur: Temples In A Changing State by Catherine B. Asher
The Nyatapola Temple Of Bhaktapur:
A Mark Of Nepalese Temple Design
A Select Portfolio By Raimund O.A. Beckerritterspach
The Evolution Of The Goan Hindu Temple by Jose Pereira
Section VIII 264
Modern Temples
The Marathas, The British And The Brihadishvara In Thanjavur by George Michell
Mandala By Design
A Select Portfolio By Vibhuti Sachdev
Temple Renovation And Chettiar Patronage In Colonial Madras
Presidency
A Select Portfolio By Crispin Branfoot
Panchakroshi Temple In Banaras
A Select Portfolio By Niels Gutschow
Icons And Identities: The Work And Lives Of Bronzecasters In
Swamimalai by Sowparnika Balaswaminathan
The Hinglaj Shrine In Baluchistan
A Select Portfolio By Ibrahim Shah
Sacredness Outside Tradition? Dilemmas In Designing Temples by A. Srivathsan
Svayambhu In The Park: Temples In Jayanagar,Bangalore by Annapurna Garimella
Vol.73, No.4,June-Sep.2022
Introduction: Putting Indian Textiles On The Map
Abigail S. McGowan 10
Section I
Textiles In Motion: Histories Of Trade And Influences 14
The Commercial Embroidery of Gujarat in the 17th Century by John Irwin
Early Indian Textiles Discovered in Egypt 22
An image essay by Valerie Berinstain
Vaishnavite Silks: The Figured Textiles of Assam by Rosemary Crill 24
Of Merchants, Monarchs and Monks: An 18th-Century Patolu Re-examined by Shilpa Shah 29
The Mughal Scenic Animal Carpet in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC by Syamali Das 34
Section II
Production: Technology, Expertise, Community 38
Ingenious Techniques in Early Indian Dyed Cotton by Mattiebelle Gittinger 40
Recalculating Colour: Thomas Wardle's Remarkable Dye Experiments by Brenda King 47
Pashmina Spinners, Weavers and Needleworkers by Janet Rizvi 52
Embroidered Gardens of Flowers: Bagh And Phulkari Of Punjab An image essay by Jasleen Dhamija 66
Textile Arts of Ladakh: Nomadic Weaves to Silk-Brocades by
Monisha Ahmed 68
The Master Weavers
An image essay by Martand Singh and Jyotindra Jain 78
Revivalism and Revivalists by Laila Tyabji 80
Section Ill
Textile Politics: Authority, Identity, Patronage 88
The Kashmir Shawl in the Mughal Period An image essay by Janet Rizvi 92
Indigo: From Bengal to Blue Jeans by Jenny Balfour-Paul 94
Reform and Sartorial Styles in 19th-Century Bengal by Malavika Karlekar 102
Homage to Hand looms by Mulk Raj Anand and Pupul Jayakar 106
Mata no Candarvo 109
An image essay by Eberhard Fischer, Jyotindra Jain, Haku Shah
Shaping Textile Futures: Those Who Led the Way by Ritu Sethi 110
Section IV
Designing For Changing Markets 116
Contemporary Design Development in Handlooms by K.G. Subramanyan 120
Jadunath Supakar and Design Revival in Banaras Brocades by
Anjan Chakraverty 125
Warp and Weft: Tradition and Change,Craftsmen and Innovation in Bhujodi by Judy Frater 130
Textiles in India: Fashioning the Contemporary by Mayank Mansingh Kaul and Meher Varma 136
Contents
Marg : a magazine of the arts
Vol.74,No.4,June & Vol.75,No.1, Sep.2023
Readings On Painting From 75 Years Of Marg Edited By Dipti Khera and Yael Rice
Introduction12
Section I 18
Patron, Place And Politics
The Neglected Aspects Of Ajanta Art by Hermann Goetz
Leaves From Rajasthan: A Dated Bhagavata Purana Of The Bhandarkar Oriental Institute, Poona, And Notes On The Chronology Of Early Rajput Painting-An Excerpt by Karl Khandalavala
Miniature Painting-A Photo Essay by Saryu Doshi
A Sub-Imperial Mughal Manuscript: The Ramayana Of Abd Al-Rahim Khankhanan by John Seyller
Calcutta And The Early Growth Of The Bengal School Of Painting-A Photo Essay by Amita Ray
The Painted Scrolls Of The Garoda Picture Showmen Of Gujarat by
Jyotindra Jain
The "Murshidabad" Pats Of Bengal by T Richard Blurton
Section II 70
The Agency And Knowledge Of Painters
Maithil Painting by W.G Archer
Mansur by Asok Kumar Das
The Saving Power Of Soron: Sahibdin Of Udaipur And The Sukarakshetra Mahatmya by Andrew Topsfield
Pahari Painting: The Family As The Basis Of Style -An Excerpt by
B.N. Goswamy
Artistic Agency In Painted Narratives: The Case Of The Chandayan Manuscripts by Qamar Adamjee
The Painted Scrolls Of The Deccan! Picture Showmen: Seventeenth To Nineteenth Century-A Photo Essay by Jagdish Mittal
Section Ill 124
Painting In Motion
Murals In The Early Temples Of Alchi-A Photo Essay by Roger Goepper
The NI'MAT Nama: A Landmark In Malwa Painting by Robert Skelton
Recycled Images: Overpainting In Early Mughal Art -A Photo Essay by
John Seyller
Rembrandt And The Inspiration Of India-A Photo Essay by Stephanie Schrader With Other Authors
Holi In The Zenana: Genre, Style And Socrability by Debra Diamond
Towards A New Naturalism: Portraiture In Murshidabad And Avadh, 1750-80 by Jeremiah P. Losty
Portraiture At The Tanjore Maratha Court: Toward Modernity In The Early 19th Century by Indira Viswanathan Peterson
Section IV 172
Painting Creates Space
Warli Pictographs by Pupul Jayakar
The Tradition Of Wall-Painting In Kerala-A Photo Essay by Mulk Raj Anand
Tirupati Paintings And Srikalahasti Cloths by Anna L. Dallapiccola
The Wall-Paintings Of The Badal Mahal-An Excerpt by Milo Cleveland Beach
Allegories Of Good Kingship: Wall Paintings In The Qila Mubarak At Patiala-An Excerpt by Kavita Singh
Painting The Towns: Shekhawati's Murals-A Photo Essay by Ilay Cooper
Section V 212
Pleasure, Wonder And Emotion
Indian Illustrated Manuscripts Of The Kalilah Wa Dimnah, Anvar-I Suhayli, And Iyar-I Danish-A Photo Essay by Kalpana Desai, Karl Khandalavala
Portraits Of Ibrahim Adil Shah HI -An Excerpt by Moti Chandra
Music, Art And Power In 'Adil Shahi Bijapur, C. 1570-1630 by
Katherine Butler Schofield
Cosmic Sympathies And Painting At Akbar's Court by Yael Rice
Documenting The Fabulous: The 'AJA'IB Al-Makhluqat Of The National Museum-A Photo Essay by Preeti Bahadur Ramaswami
Congress Of Kings: Notes On A Painting Of Muhammad Shah Rangeela Having Sex by Kavita Singh
Jagvilasa: Picturing Worlds Of Pleasure And Power In 18th-Century Udaipur Painting by Dipti Khera
Section VI 268
Canonization And Originality
Portraits Of ''A Noble Queen": Chand Bibi In The Historical Imaginary by
Deborah Hutton
Painting In Kutch: Surprises And Delight-A Photo Essay by B.N. Goswamy
Authenticity And Excellence In Narrative Paintings From Rajasthan: An Addendum by Vishakha N. Desai
Harijan Paintings Of Mithila-A Photo Essay by Neel Rekha
Folk Artists Of Bengal And Contemporary Images : A Case Of Reverse Appropriation by Jyotindra Jain
A Market For Fakes: "Miniature" Painting In Rajasthan, 1960-2000 by
Varunika Saraf
Vol.75,No.2 Dec.2023
Histories of Indian Perfume
Guest Edited By James McHugh
Letter from the Editor 14
Naman P. Ahuja
On a Scented Trail by James McHugh 16
Makers and Traders of Perfume in Ancient and Medieval India by James McHugh 20
Fragrant Smoke-Fountains: Incense Burners in Ancient and Medieval South Asia by James McHugh 28
Incense and Censing Practices in the Early Modern Deccan by Emma J. Flatt 32
Aromas from Mughal Dining Spaces by Neha Vermani 40
A Smokeless Flame in the Garden: Magnolia Champaca in Indian Art and (Horti) Culture by Nicolas Roth 50
A Culture of Flower Aestheticism by Ahalya Matthan 60
Therapeutic Tastes, Salubrious Smells by Shireen Hamza 70
Fragrant Orientalism by Projit Bihari Mukharji 78
Perfumes for the People: Snuffs, Sharbats and Home Remedies in Colonial Tamil Nadu by Aditya Harchand 86
What Makes a Rose a Rose by Nicolas Roth 94
Perfume as Labour? Industrial Change and Social Hierarchies in Indian ltr Histories by Amanda Lanzillo 100
Attar: Materials, Processes and Future by Giti Datt 108
Finding the Ruh Gulab by Malayka Shirazi 116
Contributors 122