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Passions of the Tongue
Why would love for their language lead several men in southern India to burn themselves alive in its name? "Passions of the Tongue" analyzes the discourses of love, labor, and life …
Motherland
This interdisciplinary scholarly catalogue examines Motherland, an important series of photo-performances by the acclaimed artist Pushpamala N. on the Indian nation personified as …
Lost Land of Lemuria
During the nineteenth century, Lemuria was imagined as a land that once bridged India and Africa but disappeared into the ocean millennia ago, much like Atlantis. A sustained …
Gandhi in the Gallery
Mohandas K. Gandhi has been described as ‘an artist of non-violence,’ crafting as he did a set of practices of the self and politics that earned him the mantle of Mahatma, ‘the …
Terrestrial Lessons
Why and how do debates about the form and disposition of our Earth shape enlightened subjectivity and secular worldliness in colonial modernity? Sumathi Ramaswamy explores this …
Empires of Vision
Empires of Vision brings together pieces by some of the most influential scholars working at the intersection of visual culture studies and the history of European imperialism. The …
The Goddess and the Nation
Making the case for a new kind of visual history, The Goddess and the Nation charts the pictorial life and career of Bharat Mata, “Mother India,” the Indian nation imagined as …
Barefoot across the Nation
This book is the first inter-disciplinary engagement with the work of Maqbool Fida Husain, arguably India’s most iconic contemporary artist today, whose life and work are …
Das Weltmachen Indiens
Goddess and the Nation
Making the case for a new kind of visual history, The Goddess and the Nation charts the pictorial life and career of Bharat Mata, "e;Mother India,"e; the Indian nation …
Empires of Vision
Empires of Vision brings together pieces by some of the most influential scholars working at the intersection of visual culture studies and the history of European imperialism. The …
Husain's Raj
- This will be the first monograph-length analysis of Husain's paintings- Husain's Raj Series featured playful vignettes of the Raj that introduced the British Empire in India to a …