Monuments, Objects, Histories

Monuments, Objects, Histories
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 431
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ISBN-10 : 9780231129985
ISBN-13 : 023112998X
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Book Synopsis Monuments, Objects, Histories by : Tapati Guha-Thakurta

Download or read book Monuments, Objects, Histories written by Tapati Guha-Thakurta and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers both an insider and outsider perspective, moving from a period that saw the consolidation of western expertise and custodianship of India's "antiquities," to the projection over the twentieth century of varying regional, nativist and national claims around the country's archaeological, architectural and artistic inheritance, into a present time that has pitted these objects and fields within a highly contentious politics of nationhood.


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