No Touching, No Spitting, No Praying: The Museum in South Asia
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Edition
1st. ed.
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ISBN
9781138796010
Length
v+269p., Illustrations; 25cm.
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This volume brings together a range of essays that offer a new perspective on the dynamic history of the museum as a cultural institution in South Asia. It traces the museum from its origin as a tool of colonialism and adoption as a vehicle of sovereignty in the nationalist period, till its role in the present, as it reflects the fissured identities of the post-colonial period.
This work will prove indispensable to scholars, researchers as well as professionals ...
