“tapati ray”

‘They say in Jhansi that the best thing that ever happened to their town was Lakshmi Bai…' The 400-year-old town of Jhansi still feels that it owes its fame to a young rani who ruled for four-and-a-half years. In the uprising of 1857 which came to be known as the ‘First War of Indian Independe... 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

Surveys the practices of archaeology, art history and museums in 19th and 20th century India and reveals the scholarly and institutional authority that emerged around such artifacts and structures which made the significances of a nation`s colonization and antiquity. Examines the relationship betwee... More

Brief yet thorough, this book provides an introduction to the concepts and theories of soil science. It explains in the simplest manner, the principles of soil formation, properties of soils, interrelationship between soil water, soil air, soil temperature and plant growth.... 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 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