CONTENTS 

Introduction
Gayatri Sinha

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. Siva Kumar

The 1930s: A Decade of Modernism
Gayatri Sinha

Artist Collectives in the Age of Anxiety, 1940-50
Shukla Sawant

Social Realism in the Visual Arts: "Man-Made" Famine and Political Ferment, Bengal 1943-46
Sanjoy Mallik

A House for Modernism: Art in its Institutional Aspects, 1950s and '60s
Anshuman Das Gupta

Modern Indian Sculpture
Shivaji K. Panikkar

City Lights, City Limits: Multimple Metaphors in Everyday Urbanism
Roobina Karode and Shukla Sawant

Modernity in the South: An Overview
Ashrafi S. Bhagat

Curating Culture, Curating Territory: Religio-Political Mobility in India
Jyotindra Jain

The Mahatma as Muse: An Image Essay on Gandhi in Popular Indian Visual Imagination
Sumathi Ramaswamy

Language of an Idealized Revolt: Sculptural Installation from the 1990s to the Present 
Deeksha Nath

New Media Overtures before New Media Practice in India
Nancy Adajania

Performance in Photography: A Bridge between Ram Singh II of Jaipur and Contemporary Photographers
Gayatri Sinha

Gender Mobility: Through the Lens of Five Women Artists
Geeta Kapur

Bibliography

Index

Contributors