Monuments, Objects, Histories

Download or read book Monuments, Objects, Histories written by Tapati Guha-Thakurta and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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, archaeological relics, and art objects." "In brief, this book traces the framing of an official national canon of Indian art through different periods, showing how the workings of disciplines and institutions have been linked with the authority of the nation." --book cover.