Picturing the nation:iconographies of modern India
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Orient Longman,
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Publisher Address: | New Delhi |
Publication Dates: | 2007. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | xii, 274 p.: ill. (chiefly col.) ; 25 cm. |
ISBN: |
9788125029083 8125029087 |
Index Number: | J231(351) |
CLC: | J231(351)-05 |
Call Number: | J231(351)-05/P611 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [242]-261) and index. Body politic(s) : maps and mother goddesses in modern India / Sumathi Ramaswamy -- The body and the bomb : technologies of modernity in colonial India / Christopher Pinney -- Against allegory : Binode Bihari Mukherjee's Medieval saints at Shantiniketan / Ajay Sinha -- More than meets the (Hindu) eye : the public arena as a space for alternative visions / Sandria B. Freitag -- From Rajadharma to Indian nationalism : iconographies of pre- and post-Independence Jaipur / Catherine B. Asher -- The efficacious image : pictures and power in Indian mass culture / Kajri Jain -- "I am a national artist" : popular art in the sphere of Hindutva / Christiane Brosius -- Spectacles of nationalism in the Ganapati Utsav of Maharashtra / Raminder Kaur. |