Monuments, Objects, Histories: Institutions of Art in Colonial and Post-Colonial India

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. The Colonial Past1. The Empire and its Antiquities: Two Pioneers and Their Scholarly Fields2.The Museum in the Colony: Conserving, Collecting, ClassifyingPart II. Regional Frames3. Interlocuting Texts and Monuments: The Coming of Sge of the 'Native' Scholar4. Between the Nation and the Region: The Locations of a Bengali Archaeologist5. Wresting the Nation's Prerogative: Art History and Nationalism in BengalPart III. National Claims6. The Demands of Independence: From a National Exhibition to a National Museum7. 'For the Greater Glory of Indian Art': Travels and Travails of a YakshiPart IV. The Embattled Present8. Art History and the Nude: On art, Obscenity, and Sexuality in Contemporary India9. Archaeology and the Monument: On Two Contentious Sites of Faith and HistoryNotesBibliographyIndex

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