No Touching, No Spitting, No Praying: The Museum in South Asia  

 -  Routledge India  2015 
 - 270p. 
 - Visual and Media Histories .
<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/> 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781138796010 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Museum studies
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>ARTS  / MAT