Art and Nationalism in Colonial India, 1850-1922

Art and Nationalism in Colonial India, 1850-1922
Author: Partha Mitter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 538
Release: 1994
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780521443548

Partha Mitter's book is a pioneering study of the history of modern art on the Indian subcontinent from 1850 to 1922. The author tells the story of Indian art during the Raj, set against the interplay of colonialism and nationalism. The work addresses the tensions and contradictions that attended the advent of European naturalism in India, as part of the imperial design for the westernisation of the elite, and traces the artistic evolution from unquestioning westernisation to the construction of Hindu national identity. Through a wide range of literary and pictorial sources, Art and Nationalism in Colonial India balances the study of colonial cultural institutions and networks with the ideologies of the nationalist and intellectual movements which followed. The result is a book of immense significance, both in the context of South Asian history and in the wider context of art history.

Terrestrial Lessons

Terrestrial Lessons
Author: Sumathi Ramaswamy
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2017-10-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 022647657X

Prologue: Global itineraries, Earth inscriptions -- In pursuit of a global thing -- "As you live in the world, you ought to know something of the world"--The global pandit -- Down to Earth? Of girls and globes -- "It's called a globe. It is the Earth. Our Earth!" -- Epilogue: The conquest of the world as globe