ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|86 pages
Inaugural Formations
part 2|66 pages
National Re-Orientations
part 3|94 pages
Contemporary Engagements