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No touching, no spitting, no praying: the museum in South Asia

No touching, no spitting, no praying: the museum in South Asia
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ISBN 0815373244 (softcover)
9780815373247 (softcover)
Title No touching, no spitting, no praying : the museum in South Asia / editors, Saloni Mathur and Kavita Singh
Publisher Abingdon, UK ; New York : Routledge, 2015
Physical desc. xiv, 269 pages ; illustrations ; 25 cm.
Series Visual & media histories
Note Paperback edition 2017.
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Introduction / Saloni Mathur and Kavita Singh -- Part 1: Inaugural formations. The transformation of objects into artefacts, antiquities and art in 19th-century India / Bernard Cohn -- The museum in the colony: collecting, conserving, classifying / Tapati Guha-Thakurta -- Staging science / Gyan Prakash -- Part 2: National re-orientations. The museum is national / Kavita Singh -- Grace McCann Morley and the National Museum of India / Kristy Phillips -- Museumising modern art: National Gallery of Modern Art: the Indian case-study / Vidya Shivadas -- Part 3: Contemporary engagements. Museums are good to think: heritage on view in India / Arjun Appadurai and Carol A. Breckenridge -- Remembering the rural in suburban Chennai: the artisanal pasts of DakshinaChitra / Mary Hancock -- Reincarnations of the museum: the museum in an age of religious revivalism / Saloni Mathur and Kavita Singh -- Museum watching: an introduction / Tulay Atak and others.
Subject Museums -- South Asia
Museums -- India
Art museums -- South Asia
Art museums -- India
Museums -- Social aspects -- South Asia
Museums -- Social aspects -- India
Added name(s) Mathur, Saloni editor
Singh, Kavita editor
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