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Monuments, Objects, Histories: Institutions of Art in Colonial and Post-Colonial India (Cultures of History) PDF

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by Tapati Guha-Thakurta| 2004| 431 pages| 9.333| English

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The disciplines of archaeology and art history came into being in colonial India, but were to be transformed over the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries into powerfully nationalized institutions. This book offers both an insider and outsider perspective on the growth of these scholarly fields, on their institutional practices, and on the ways they have constituted and recast their objects of study. It moves 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. One of the main themes of the book is the framing of an official national canon of Indian art, showing how the workings of disciplines and institutions have been tied to the pervasive authority of the nation. At the same time, it also addresses the radical reconfiguration of the meaning and scope of the "national" -the kinds of exclusions and chauvinisms -that lie at the root of the current endangerment of these disciplines and the monuments and art-objects they encompass.

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Author:Tapati Guha-Thakurta
Publication Year:2004
Pages:431
Language:English
File Size:9.333
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