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020			_a9781138080720
028			_aAtlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd. _b;7/22, Ansari Road, Darya Ganj,New Delhi-110002 _c;1110104 _d;27/02/2020
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100			_aSaloni Mathur _a; Kavita Singh
245			_aNo touching, no spitting, no praying _b: the museum in South Asia _c/Saloni Mathur
260			_aNew Delhi _b: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group _c, 2015.
300			_axiv, 269 pages _c;24 cm.
365			_b895
490			_aVisual & media histories.
505			_aPreface / 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.
520			_aThis 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
650			_aMuseums -- South Asia.
655			_a;Art museums -- South Asia. _b;Museums -- Social aspects -- South Asia.
700			_a Kavita Singh
942			_cBOOK