01822nam a22002417a 4500 20240306120237.0 240306b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781913107284 : Technical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd. : E/261, Shastri Nagar, Delhi : TB4070 : 2/3/2024 631.541 SHA Shaffer, Holly. Grafted Arts. / Holly Shaffer. , New Havan : Yale University Press , 2022. ix,298p. : 30cm. 3292 Grafted Arts focuses on Maratha military rulers and British East India Company officials who used the arts to engage in diplomacy, wage war, compete for prestige, and generate devotion as they allied with (or fought against) each other to control western India in the eighteenth century. This book conceptualizes the artistic combinations that resulted as ones of “graft”―a term that acknowledges the violent and creative processes of suturing arts, and losing and gaining goods, as well as the shifting dynamics among agents who assembled such materials. By tracing grafted arts from multiple perspectives―Maratha and British, artist and patron, soldier and collector―this book charts the methods of empire-building that recast artistic production and collection in western India and from there across India and in Britain. This mercenary method of artistry propagated mixed, fractured, and plundered arts. Indeed, these “grafted arts”―disseminated across India and Britain over the nineteenth century to aid in consolidating empire or revolting against it entirely―remain instigators of nationalist agitation today. diplomacy Maratha military British East India Grafted Holly Shaffer. BOOK 61463 61463 0 0 ddc 0 0 SNUL SNUL 2024-03-06 Technical Bureau 3292.00 0 631.541 SHA 30098 2024-03-06 00:00:00 2024-03-06 BOOK