Beyond appearances? : visual practices and ideologies in modern India

Papers Presented At A Conference Held At Michigan In May 2000; Previously Published In The Journal, Contributions To Indian Sociology, 36 (1 & 2). Mechanical Reproduction And The World Of The Colonial Artist / Partha Mitter -- More Than Meets The Eye : The Circulation Of Images And The Embodiment Of Value / Kajri Jain -- Evolving A Monkey : Hanuman, Poster Art And Postcolonial Anxiety / Philip Lutgendorf -- A Secret Of Their Own Country : Or, How Indian Nationalism Made Itself Irrefutable / Christopher Pinney -- Visualising India's Geo-body : Globes, Maps, Bodyscapes / Sumathi Ramaswamy -- Unity In Diversity? : Dilemmas Of Nationhood In Indian Calendar Art / Patricia Uberoi -- Moving Pictures : The Postcolonial State And Visual Representations Of India / Srirupa Roy -- Hindutva Intervisuality : Videos And The Politics Of Representation / Christiane Brosius -- Penetrating Gazes : The Poetics Of Sight And Visual Display In Popular Indian Cinema / Woodman Taylor -- Merchant Houses As Spectacles Of Modernity In Rajasthan And Tamil Nadu / Anne Hardgrove -- The Realm Of The Visual : Agency And Modern Civil Society / Sandria B. Freitag. Edited By Sumathi Ramaswamy. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.