02377nam a22002417a 4500 56457 56457 20200305121949.0 200305b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781138080720 Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd. ;7/22, Ansari Road, Darya Ganj,New Delhi-110002 ;1110104 ;27/02/2020 069.0954 MAT Saloni Mathur ; Kavita Singh No touching, no spitting, no praying : the museum in South Asia /Saloni Mathur New Delhi : Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group , 2015. xiv, 269 pages ;24 cm. 895 Visual & media histories. Preface / Monica Juneja -- Introduction / Saloni Mathur & Kavita Singh -- Part I. Inaugural formations. 1. The transformation of objects into artefacts, antiquities and art in 19th-century India / Bernard Cohn ; 2. The museum in the colony : collecting, conserving, classifying / Tapati Guha-Thakurta ; 3. Staging science / Gyan Prakash -- Part II. National re-orientations. 4. The museum is national / Kavita Singh ; 5. Grace McCann Morley and the National Museum of India / Kristy Phillips ; 6. Museumising modern art : National Gallery of Modern Art, the Indian case-study / Vidya Shivadas -- Part III. Contemporary engagements. 7. Museums are good to think : heritage on view in India / Arjun Appadurai & Carol A. Breckenridge ; 8. Remembering the rural in suburban Chennai : the artisanal pasts of DakshinaChitra / Mary Hancock ; 9. Reincarnations of the museum : the museum in an age of religious revivalism / Saloni Mathur & Kavita Singh -- Museum watching: an introduction [13 ethnographic portraits from the field] / Tulay Atak [and twelve others] -- About the editors -- About the series editor -- Notes on contributors. This volume brings together a range of essays that offer a new perspective on the dynamic history of the museum as a cultural institution in South Asia. It traces the museum from its origin as a tool of colonialism and adoption as a vehicle of sovereignty in the nationalist period, till its role in the present, as it reflects the fissured identities of the post-colonial period Museums -- South Asia. ;Art museums -- South Asia. ;Museums -- Social aspects -- South Asia. Kavita Singh BOOK 0 0 ddc 0 0 SNUL SNUL 2020-03-05 Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd. 895.00 7 5 069.0954 MAT 27418 2026-04-27 11:10:10 2026-02-17 2020-03-05 BOOK