Tapati Guha Thakurta

Guest Speaker

Tapati Guha Thakurta is Professor of History at theCentre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. She has published widely on the art and cultural history of Modern India and her publications include The Aesthetics of the Popular Print, Calcutta, 2006, Monuments, Objects, Histories: Institutions of Art in Colonial and Postcolonial India, 2004, Visual Worlds of Modern Bengal, 2002; Representing the Bengali Modern, 2000; In Her Own Right: Remembering the Artist, Karuna Shaha, 2001; and The Making of a New ‘Indian’ Art: Artists, Aesthetics and Nationalism in Bengal, c.1850-1920, 1992.

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    The conference brings together leading scholars from South Asia, Europe and North America to debate the status and survivals of key markers in the colonial and post-colonial histories and spaces of South Asia.
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