Tapati Guha-Thakurta is professor of history at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.
List of Illustrations
ix
Acknowledgments
xiii
Introduction
xvii
PART I The Colonial Past
The Empire and its Antiquities: Two Pioneers and their Scholarly Fields
3
(40)
The Museum in the Colony: Collecting, Conserving, Classifying
43
(42)
PART II Regional Frames
Interlocuting Texts and Monuments: The Coming of Age of the ``Native'' Scholar
85
(27)
Between the Nation and the Region: The Locations of a Bengali Archaeologist
112
(28)
Wresting the Nation's Prerogative: Art History and Nationalism in Bengal
140
(35)
PART III National Claims
The Demands of Independence: from a National Exhibition to a National Museum
175
(30)
``For the Greater Glory of Indian Art'': Travels and Travails of a Yakshi
205
(32)
PART IV The Embattled Present
Art History and the Nude: on Art, Obscenity, and Sexuality in Contemporary India
237
(31)
Archaeology and the Monument: on two Contentious Sites of Faith and History
268
(37)
Notes
305
(68)
Bibliography
373
(20)
Index
393
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