Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ix
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii
5. INTRODUCTION xvii
6. PART I: The Colonial Past
7. 1. The empire and its antiquities: Two pioneers and their scholarly fields 3
8. 2. The museum in the colony: Collecting, conserving, classifying 43
9. PART II: Regional Frames
10. 3. Interlocuting texts and monuments: The coming of age of the "native" scholar 85
11. 4. Between the nation and the region: The locations of a bengali archaeologist 112
12. 5. Wresting the nation's prerogative: Art history and nationalism in bengal 140
13. PART III: National Claims
14. 6. The demands of independence: From a national exhibition to a national museum 175
15. 7. "For the greater glory of indian art": Travels and tray ails of a yakshi 205
16. PART IV: The Embattled Present
17. 8. Art history and the nude: On art, obscenity, and sexuality in contemporary India 237
18. 9. Archaeology and the monument: On two contentious sites of faith and history 268
19. Notes 305
20. Bibliography 373
21. Index 393