No Touching, No Spitting, No Praying: The Museum in South Asia
No Touching, No Spitting, No Praying: The Museum in South Asia
- Routledge India 2015
- 270p.
- Visual and Media Histories .
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.
9781138796010
Museum studies
ARTS / MAT
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.
9781138796010
Museum studies
ARTS / MAT