20th century Indian art : modern, post-independence, contemporary. / Partha Mitter.

The geopolitics of modernism in the 20 century / Partha Mitter, Parul Dave Mukherji, Rakhee Balaram
Part I. Colonial Modernity, Art and National Identity (1900-1947). Introduction / Partha Mitter
Chapter 1. Indian artists' dialogue with modernity (1900-1922) / Partha Mitter
Chapter 2. Competing voices of modernity (1922-1947) / Partha Mitter
Chapter 3. Another voice of modernity / Partha Mitter
Chapter 4. Indian photography in the colonial era / Partha Mitter
Chapter 5. Empire, colony and nation : Abanindranath Tagore and the Shah Jahan paintings / Debashish Banerji
Chapter 6. Retake of Amrita Sher-Gil's 'Self-Portrait as Tahitian' / Saloni Mathur
Chapter 7. Rabindranath Tagore, Nandalal Bose and art in Santiniketan / R. Siva Kumar
Chapter 8. The 1940s : The Calcutta Group and the Bengal Famine / Sanjoy Mallik
Chapter 9. Structures in place : Modernity and sculptural imagination in 20th-century India / Sanjukta Sunderason
Chapter 10. The Arts and Crafts Movement : Modern reinvocations / Naman P. Ahuja
Part II. Post-Colonial Decades in Visual Art Practices. Introduction / Parul Dave Mukherji
Chapter 11. Bombay modern : The Progressive Artists' Group and the quest for significant form / Yashodhara Dalmia
Chapter 12. Exodus westwards : Padamsee, Raza and Souza in Europe / Karin Zitzewitz
Chapter 13. The Delhi Silpi Chakra : Art and politics after the Radcliffe Line / Atreyee Gupta
Chapter 14. Nation and its discontents : Group 1890 / Rebecca M. Brown
Chapter 15. Crafting modernity through regional traditions : The Madras Art Movement / Ashrafi S. Bhagat
Chapter 16. Ornamental modernism : Regional aesthetics and the art of Andhra Pradesh / Rahini Iyengar
Chapter 17. Bengal decentred : The emergence of the regional modern / Nandini Ghosh
Chapter 18. Looking 'East' : The art of Assam and around / Amrita Gupta Singh
Chapter 19. Framed borders : Photography in India after independence / Rahaab Allana
Chapter 20. The classical and the monumental in Indian sculpture (1947-present) / Annapurna Garimella
Chapter 21. The making of the Baroda School : When people become public / Parul Dave Mukherji
Chapter 22. Museumizing the present : Museums of modern art in India, public and private / Kavita Singh
Chapter 23. The art of ideas : Critics, journals and modernism in India (c. 1946-1981) / Sonal Khullar
Chapter 24. Modernist myths and the exile of Maqbool Fida Husain / Geeta Kapur
Part III. Nation after Globalization : Art in India in the 1900s-2000s. Introduction / Rakhee Balaram
Chapter 25. Transformations : Art, globalization and cultural politics in 1990s India / Rebecca M. Brown
Chapter 26. Public quickening : Two decades of installation art in India (1990-2010) / Elena Bernardini
Chapter 27. Revisitations : Women artists in India since the 1990s / Gayatri Sinha
Chapter 28. Minimal abstraction in India / Grant Watson
Chapter 29. 'A Chaos of Awakened Wonders' : Heteroglossia and multimodal signs in Indian sculptural practice / Maya Kóvskaya
Chapter 30. Exit wounds : Practice and politics of performance art in India / Rakhee Balaram
Chapter 31. Photo-fact, photo-fiction : Constructing artist photography in modern and contemporary Indian art / Shukla Sawant
Chapter 32. An archaeology of new media practice in India / Nancy Adajania
Chapter 33. Indian video art and the 'new' narrative matrix / Johan Pijnappel
Chapter 34. Post-postcolonial sensory infrastructure / Ravi Sundaram
Chapter 35. Art and activism in India : A return to the public sphere? / Deeptha Achar
Chapter 36. Practising participation : Contemporary community-based art practice in India / Rajashree Biswal
Chapter 37. The contemporary in the 'folk' and 'tribal' arts of India / Jyotindra Jain
Chapter 38. Dalit art and imagery : Expanding the Indian contemporary / Gary Michael Tartakov
Chapter 39. Crafting contemporary art in India / Annapurna Garimella
Chapter 40. Desultory diaspora : Post-independence and contemporary South Asian art / Rakhee Balaram
Chapter 41. Domains of presentation and reception : Indian contemporary art overseas, some partial perspectives / John Clark
Part IV. Mapping Several Regional Modernisms in South Asia : Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Sri Lanka. Introduction / Partha Mitter, Parul Dave Mukherji, Rakhee Balaram
Chapter 42. A short history of art in Pakistan / Simone Wille
Chapter 43. Framing modern and contemporary art in Nepal / Dina Bangdel
Chapter 44. Modern and contemporary art in Bangladesh / A. K. M. Khademul Haque
Chapter 45. Contemporary art from Myanmar under militarization / Zasha Colah
Chapter 46. Modern and contemporary art in Sri Lanka / T. Sanathanan
Epilogue : On the edge of the global . Interviews with artists and critics : Krishen Khanna, K. G. Subramanyan, Jogen Chowdhury, Geeta Kapur, R. Nandakumar, Tapati Guha-Thakurta, Iftikhar Dadi, Raqs Media Collective, Jitish Kallat, Anita Dube
Acknowledgments
Glossary
Brief biographies
Sources of illustrations
Index

A landmark volume presenting the history of Indian art across the subcontinent and South Asia from the late 19th century to the present day, published in association with Art Alive. Recent decades have seen significant growth in the interest, acquisition and exhibition of modern Indian and South Asian art and artists by major international museums. This essential textbook, primarily aimed at students, presents an engaging, informative history of modern art from the subcontinent as seen through the eyes of prominent Indian academics. Illustrated throughout with strong narrative content, key experts contribute multiple perspectives on modernism, modernity and plurality, and expansive ideas about contemporary art practices. A range of subjects and topics feature including Group 1890, the Madras Art Movement, Regional Modern and Dalit art, as well as artists such as Amrita Sher-Gil and Raqs Media Collective. This book also has sections devoted to the art of Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and other parts of South Asia. Together with lively academic discussions and a selection of absorbing interviews with artists, this title meets a clear demand for a comprehensive and authoritative sourcebook on modern, postmodern and contemporary Indian art. It is the definitive reference for anyone with an interest in Indian art and non-Western art histories.