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Código del Artículo: IDH469

por Richard H. Davis

Hardcover (Edición: 2007)

Orient Longman Private Limited
ISBN 8125029087

Tamaño: 9.6" X 6.4
Páginas: 284 (Color Illus: 36, B & W Illus: 8)

Precio: Euro 38.12

Descripción

From the Jacket

Picturing the Nation explores visual representations of India from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. The eight illustrated essays in this volume consider a multitude of visual items including chromolithographs, films and television shows, official icons, architecture, and cultural displays.

With a comprehensive introduction by Richard H. Davis, this volume analyses how the Indian "National Symbolic" has been imagined and how visual representations of the Indian nation have been figured in terms of family relationships community and divinity. Through this analysis, the book attempts to answer the question-how is it that so many persons have been persuaded to die willingly for something as recently imagined as the nation?

Consciously differing from writings where imagining the nation is a predominantly verbal and discursive activity, Picturing the nation presents a visual history of modern India.

About the Author

Richard H. Davis is Professor in the programs of Religion and Asian Studies at Bard College, Annandale, NY. His publications include Ritual in an Oscillating Universe: worshiping Siva in Medieval India (1991) and Lives of Indian Images (1997).

CONTENTS

	List of Illustrations	vii
	Acknowledgements	xi
	Introduction	1
	Richard H. Davis
1	Body Politic(s): Maps and Mother, Goddesses in Modern India	32
	Sumathi Ramaswamy
2	The Body and the Bomb: Technologies of Modernity in Colonial India	51
	Christopher Pinney
3	Against Allegory: Binode Bihari Mukherjee's Medieval Saints at Shantiniketan	66
	Ajay Sinha
4	More than Meets the (Hindu) Eye: The Public Arena as a Space for Alternative Visions	92
	Sandria B. Freitag
5	From Rajadharma to Indian Nationalism: Iconographies of Pre- and Post-Independence Jaipur	117
	Catherine B. Asher
6	The Efficacious Image: Pictures and Power in Indian Mass Culture	144
	Kajri Jain
7	"I am a National Artist": Popular Art in the Sphere of Hindutva	171
	Christiane Brosius
8	Spectacles of Nationalism in the Ganapati Utsav of Maharashtra	206
	Raminder Kaur
	Bibliography	242
	List of Contributors	262
	Index	265