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Author #N/A, Kavita

Title No Touching, No Spitting, No Praying : the Museum in South Asia
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (284 pages)
Series Visual and Media Histories
Visual & media histories.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Plates; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; Part I inaugural formations; 1 The Transformation of Objects into Artefacts, Antiquities and Art in 19th-century India; 2 The Museum in the Colony: Collecting, Conserving, Classifying; 3 Staging Science; Part II national re-orientations; 4 The Museum is National; 5 Grace McCann Morley and the National Museum of India; 6 Museumising Modern Art: National Gallery of Modern Art, the Indian Case-Study; Part III contemporary engagements
7 Museums are Good to Think: Heritage on View in India8 Remembering the Rural in Suburban Chennai: The Artisanal Pasts of DakshinaChitra; 9 Reincarnations of the Museum: The Museum in an Age of Religious Revivalism; Museum Watching: An Introduction; About the Editors; About the Series Editor; Notes on Contributors
Notes Print version record
Form Electronic book
Author Mathur, Saloni
ISBN 9781351556248
135155624X