Search Results - "colonial India"

Art and nationalism in colonial India, 1850-1922 : occidental orientations / by Mitter, Partha

The audacious raconteur : sovereignty and storytelling in colonial India / by Prasad, Leela

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Contagion and enclaves : tropical medicine in colonial India / by Bhattacharya, Nandini, 1964-

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Pious labor : Islam, artisanship, and technology in colonial India / by Lanzillo, Amanda

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The Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta : conception, collections, conservation

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Delight in design : Indian silver for the Raj by Dehejia, Vidya

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Furniture from British India and Ceylon : a catalogue of the collections in the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Peabody Essex Museum

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Indian colonial silver: European silversmiths in India, 1790-1860 and their marks, by Wilkinson, Wynyard R. T.

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The artists of Nathadwara : the practice of painting in Rajasthan by Lyons, Tryna

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The emergence of modern Hinduism: religion on the margins of colonialism by Weiss, Richard (Richard Scott)

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : rethinking religious change in nineteenth-century South Asia -- Giving to the poor : Ramalinga's transformation of Hindu charity -- The publication of Tiruvarutpa : the authority of canon and print -- Ramalinga's devotional poems: creating a hagiography -- The polemics of conflicting modernities -- The modernity of yoga powers in colonial India.…”
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Divine domesticities : Christian paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific by Choi, Hyaeweol, Jolly, Margaret, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Agency and Salvation in Christian Child Rescue in Colonial India: Preena and Amy Carmichael / Annie McCarthy -- 9. …”
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Collection of specimens and illustrations of the textile manufactures of India. Second series by Watson, J. Forbes (John Forbes), 1827-1892

Forging the ideal educated girl : the production of desirable subjects in Muslim South Asia by Khoja-Moolji, Shenila, 1982-

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The Persianate world : the frontiers of a Eurasian lingua franca

Table of Contents: “…Talismanic scrolls from eastern Turkestan / Alexandre Papas -- Conflicting meanings of Persianate culture: an intimate example from colonial India and Britain / Michael H. Fisher -- De-persifying court culture : the Khanate of Khiva's translation program / Marc Toutant -- Dissidence from a distance : the Iranian constitutional revolution viewed from Russian Daghestan / Rebecca Ruth Gould -- From Peshawar to Tehran : an anti-imperialist poet of the late Persianate milieu / Abbas Amanat -- Epilogue : the Persianate millennium / Brian Spooner.…”
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Art and visual culture in India, 1857-2007 by Sinha, Gayatri, Mitter, Partha, Singh, Kavita, Gordon, Sophie, Pinney, Christopher, Guha-Thakurta, Tapati, Siva Kumar, R., Sawant, Shukla, 1963-, Mallik, Sanjoy Kumar, Gupta, Anshuman Das, Panikkar, Shivaji, Karode, Roobina, Bhagat, Ashrafi S., Jain, Jyotindra, 1943-, Ramaswamy, Sumathi, Nath, Deeksha, Adajania, Nancy, 1971-, Adajania, Nancy, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Indian artists in the colonial period : the case of Bombay / Partha Mitter -- Material fantasy : the museum in colonial India / Kavita Singh -- The colonial project and the shifting gaze / Sophie Gordon -- Mechanical reproduction in India / Christopher Pinney -- Abanindranath, known and unknown : the artist versus the art of his times / Tapati Guha-Thakurta -- Santiniketan : a development in three movements / R. …”