India and Its Visual Cultures: Community, Class and Gender in a Symbolic Landscape

Cover
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Mapping Visual Cultures in India
Part I Camera Works
	Chapter 1 
The Photograph in Social Science Research: A Few Ethical and Practical Questions
	Chapter 2 
Unlikely ‘Devis’: Gender and Imagination On and Off the Silver Screen
	Chapter 3
Visualising Death and the Corpse: Perspectives on Post-mortem Photographs in Central-Eastern India
Part II Folk/Artistry
	Chapter 4 9/11 and the Fol
k Artists of Bengal
	Chapter 5 From Ritual Images to Animated Movies: The Transformative Journey of the Sora Paintings(Central-Eastern India)
	Chapter 6 Anjan Sen’s Visual Poetry and the 
Bengal Uttar-Adhunik School
Part III Market Signs
	Chapter 7 
The Visual Culture of Meat-shop Signs in Delhi
	Chapter 8 
The Imagery of Indian Matchmaking: Representations of Community, Class and Genderin a Transnational Online Matrimonial Market
Part IV Pictorial Politics
	Chapter 9 
A Museum, a Memorial, and a Martyr: Politics of Memory in the Sikh Golden Temple
	Chapter 10 Divine Order, Social Disorder:Debating the Visual Representations of Lalu Prasad Yadav
	Chapter 11 
Amma Provides for All: Popular Devotional Aesthetics, Material Politics and the Amman in Tamil Nadu
Part V Monumental Landscapes
	Chapter 12 
Building ‘Monuments’ in a
World-class City: Aesthetics and
Politics of Contemporary Delhi
	Chapter 13
Mayawati’s Politics of Sthals:Spectacle of the Symbolic Landscape
About the Editors and Contributors
Index