Introduction
Gayatri Sinha
Indian Artists in the Colonial Period: The Case of Bombay
Partha Mitter
Material Fantasy: The Museum in Colonial India
Kavita Singh
The Colonial Project and the Shifting Gaze
Sophie Gordon
Mechanical Reproduction in India
Christopher Pinney
Abanindranath, Known and Unknown: The Artist versus the Art of His Times
Tapati Guha-Thakurta
Santiniketan: A Development in Three Movements
R. Siva Kumar
The 1930s: A Decade of Modernism
Gayatri Sinha
Artist Collectives in the Age of Anxiety, 1940-50
Shukla Sawant
Social Realism in the Visual Arts: "Man-Made" Famine and Political Ferment, Bengal 1943-46
Sanjoy Mallik
A House for Modernism: Art in its Institutional Aspects, 1950s and '60s
Anshuman Das Gupta
Modern Indian Sculpture
Shivaji K. Panikkar
City Lights, City Limits: Multimple Metaphors in Everyday Urbanism
Roobina Karode and Shukla Sawant
Modernity in the South: An Overview
Ashrafi S. Bhagat
Curating Culture, Curating Territory: Religio-Political Mobility in India
Jyotindra Jain
The Mahatma as Muse: An Image Essay on Gandhi in Popular Indian Visual Imagination
Sumathi Ramaswamy
Language of an Idealized Revolt: Sculptural Installation from the 1990s to the Present
Deeksha Nath
New Media Overtures before New Media Practice in India
Nancy Adajania
Performance in Photography: A Bridge between Ram Singh II of Jaipur and Contemporary Photographers
Gayatri Sinha
Gender Mobility: Through the Lens of Five Women Artists
Geeta Kapur
Bibliography
Index
Contributors