TY  - GEN
AU  - Guha-Thakurta, Tapati
TI  - Monuments, objects histories : institutions of art in colonial and postcolonial India
SN  - 9788178241876
U1  - 701.030954 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Ranikhet
PB  - Permanent Black
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Colonial influence
KW  - Art, Indic
KW  - Art--Historiography
KW  - Archaeology--Research
N1  - CONTENTS
List of Illustrations  ix
Acknowledgments  xiii
Introduction  xvii
PART I : The Colonial Past
CHAPTER 1 THE EMPIRE AND ITS ANTIQUITIES: TWO PIONEERS AND THEIR SCHOLARLY FIELDS  3
CHAPTER 2 THE MUSEUM IN THE COLONY: COLLECTING, CONSERVING, CLASSIFYING  43
PART II : Regional Frames
CHAPTER 3 INTERLOCUTING TEXTS AND MONUMENTS: THE COMING OF AGE OF THE "NATIVE" SCHOLAR  85
CHAPTER 4 BETWEEN THE NATION AND THE REGION: THE LOCATIONS OF A BENGALI ARCHAEOLOGIST  112
CHAPTER 5 WRESTING THE NATION'S PREROGATIVE: ART HISTORY AND NATIONALISM IN BENGAL  140
PART III : National Claims
CHAPTER 6 THE DEMANDS OF INDEPENDENCE: FROM A NATIONAL EXHIBITION TO A NATIONAL MUSEUM  175
CHAPTER 7 "FOR THE GREATER GLORY OF INDIAN ART" : TRAVELS AND TRAVAILS OF A YAKSHI  205
PART IV : The Embattled Present
CHAPTER 8 ART HISTORY AND THE NUDE: ON ART, OBSCENITY, AND SEXUALITY IN CONTEMPORARY INDIA 237
CHAPTER 9 ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE MONUMENT: ON TWO CONTENTIOUS SITES OF FAITH AND HISTORY 268
Notes  305
Bibliography  373
Index  393
ER  -