“tapati guha thakurta”

Monuments, Objects, Histories surveys the practices of archaeology, art history, and museums in nineteenth- and twentieth-century India. It looks at processes by which ‘lost pasts’ came to be produced in India. Such lost pasts, the author shows, came to be imagined around a corpus of monuments, ... More

Karuna Shaha (1921-1996) was one of the first women students to enroll in the Government College of Art and Crafts, Calcutta, and amongst the first woman artists who persisted-indeed, insisted-on claiming professional space in her own right. She exhibited regularly, continuing with her drawing, sket... More

This book offers a path-breaking analysis of the transformations that occurred in the art and aesthetic values of Bengal during the colonial and nationalist periods. Tapati Guha-Thakurta moves beyond most existing assumptions and narratives to explore the complexities and diversities of the changes ... More

Monuments, Objects, Histories surveys the practices of archaeology, art history, and museums in nineteenth- and twentieth-century India. It looks at processes by which ‘lost pasts’ came to be produced in India. Such lost pasts, the author shows, came to be imagined around a corpus of monuments, ... More

The archive brings together the works of some renowned artists and photographiers of modern Bengal alongside an entire range of little-noticed popular and commercial genres produced by bazaar painters, print-makers, illustrators and studios. Visual Worlds of Modern Bengal presents a selection of som... More

"Monuments, Objects, Histories" is a critical survey of the practices of archaeology, art history, and museums in nineteenth- and twentieth-century India. The essays gathered here look at the processes of the production of lost pasts in modern India: pasts that come to be imagined around a growing c... More

This topical and absorbing book, written by two eminent journalists, convincingly argues against two commonly held beliefs concerning Indian politics. Their basic premise is that India has come a long way from the time when a single party, the Congress, dominated our polity. Instead, it has given wa... More