TY - BOOK AU - Mathur, Saloni AU - Singh, Kavita TI - No Touching, No Spitting, No Praying: The Museum in South Asia SN - 9781138796010 U1 - ARTS PY - 2015/// CY - . PB - Routledge India KW - Museum studies N1 - 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. ER -