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Research Interests:
Art and Cultural
History of Modern India; Archaeological, Art Historical and Museum Practices in
India; Popular Visual Culture
Courses Taught:
Problems of
Historical Writing and Method, Themes in Culture and Representation, Visual
Cultures and Practices
SELECTED LIST OF PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS:
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The
Aesthetics of the Popular Print: Lithographs and Oleographs from 19th
and 20th Century India,
Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Calcutta, 2006
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Monuments, Objects, Histories: Institutions of Art in Colonial and
Postcolonial India,
Columbia University Press, New York and Permanent Black, New Delhi, 2004
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Visual Worlds of Modern Bengal: An introduction to the pictorial and
photographic material in the documentation archive of the Centre for
Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta,
Seagull and CSSSC, Calcutta, 2002
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Representing the Bengali Modern: Dharmanarayan Dasgupta,
Calcutta, Galerie 88, 2000
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In Her Own Right:
Remembering the Artist, Karuna Shaha,
Seagull, Calcutta, 2001
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The Making of a New 'Indian'
Art: Artists, Aesthetics and Nationalism in Bengal, c.1850-1920,
Cambridge University Press, South Asian Series, 1992
JOURNAL ARTICLES:
Few recent
articles:
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“Lineages of the Modern in
Indian Art: The Making of a National History”, in Kamala Ganesh and Usha
Thakkar, ed. Culture and the making of Identity in Contemporary India, New
Delhi, Sage, 2005
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“From
Spectacle to ‘Art’: The Changing Aesthetics of Durga Puja in Contemporary
Calcutta”, Art India, Vol. 1X, Issue iii, Quarter iii, 2004
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“The
Period of Colonialism and Nationalism”, chapter in Frederick Asher, ed.,
The Art of India: Prehistory to the Present , Encyclopadea Brittanica,
2003, pp. 109-128.
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“What Makes for the
‘Authentic’ Female Nude in Indian Art?”, in Shivaji K. Panikkar, Parul Dave
Mukherji and Deepta Achar, ed., Towards a New Art History: Studies in
Indian Art, D.K. Printworld, New Delhi, 2003.
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“The Monument as Image: The
Compulsions of Visual Representation in Colonial India”, in Maria Antonella
Pelizzari, ed., Traces of India: Architecture, Photography and the
Politics of Representation, Montreal, Canadian Centre for Architecture,
and Ahmedabad, Mapin, 2003.
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"The Endangered Yakshi:
Careers of An Ancient Art Object in Modern India", in Partha Chatterjee and
Anjan Ghosh, ed., History and the Present, Permanent
Black, New Delhi, 2002.
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