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11th Annual IGRMS lecture at the IGRMS on 22nd March 2015 (Sunday)
11th Annual IGRMS lecture at the IGRMS on 22nd March 2015 (Sunday) 4:30PM
39th Foundation Day celebrations of IGRMS
Title
AN ANCIENT MONUMENT FOR MODERN INDIA:
SANCHI'S COLONIAL AND POST-COLONIAL HISTORIES
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TAPATI GUHA-THAKURTA is currently Director and Professor in History at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC). Her two main books are The Making of a New ';Indian'; Art: Artists, Aesthetics and Nationalism in Bengal (Cambridge University Press, 1992) and Monuments, Objects, Histories: Institutions of Art in Colonial and Postcolonial India (Columbia University Press, and Permanent Black, 2004). She is also the author of the following exhibition monographs – Dharmanarayan Dasgupta: Representing the Bengali Modern (Galerie 88, Kolkata, 2000), In Her Own Right: Remembering the Artist, Karuna Shaha (Seagull, Kolkata, 2001), Visual Worlds of Modern Bengal: An introduction to the documentation archive of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (Seagull, Kolkata, 2002), The Aesthetics of the Popular Print: Lithographs and Oleographs from 19th and 20th Century India (Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata, 2006), The City in the Archive: Calcutta’s Visual Histories (Calcutta: CSSSC, 2011). She has recently co-edited two anthologies of essays – Theorising the Present: Essays for Partha Chatterjee (Delhi: OUP, 2011) and New Cultural Histories of India: Materiality and Practices (Delhi: OUP, 2013). Her new book, In the Name of the Goddess: The Durga Pujas of Contemporary Kolkata is being published by Primus Books, Delhi in April 2015.
Date: February 27, 2015
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