TY  - BOOK
AU  - Saloni Mathur
AU  -  Kavita Singh
TI  - No touching, no spitting, no praying : : the museum in South Asia
T2  - Visual & media histories
SN  - 9781138080720
U1  - 069.0954 MAT 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New Delhi 
PB  - : Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
KW  - Museums -- South Asia
KW  - ;Art museums -- South Asia
KW  - ;Museums -- Social aspects -- South Asia
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -