TY - GEN AU - Mathur, Saloni AU - Singh, Kavita TI - No touching, no spitting, no praying: the museum in South Asia SN - 9781138080720 U1 - 069.0954 PY - 2017/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - South Asia KW - Museums KW - Museums--Social aspects KW - Art museums KW - India N1 - Images, illustrations N2 - 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. https://www.routledge.com/No-Touching-No-Spitting-No-Praying-The-Museum-in-South-Asia/Mathur-Singh/p/book/9780815373247# ER -