No touching, no spitting, no praying: the museum in South Asia

By:

Mathur, Saloni

Contributor(s):

Singh, Kavita [Co-author]

Series: Visual & Media HistoriesPublication details: Routledge, 2017 London:Description: xii,263p. pbk. 23cmISBN:

9781138080720

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

069.0954 MAT

Summary: 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#

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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#

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