New Cultural Histories of India: Materiality and Practices

by Bodhisattva Kar and Tapati Guha-Thakurta

This book examines the new orientations in the writing of cultural histories of India from the pre-colonial and early modern period into the postcolonial and contemporary era. It analyses the 'materialist' turn through wide-ranging textual, visual, aural, ritual, and spatial resources like eighteenth-century scribal literature in western India, art deco architecture in twentieth century Calcutta, contemporary urban spaces, early illustrated Bengali...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198090374
• ISBN13: 9780198090373
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.4" x 9.4"