Tapati guha-thakurta biography definition

  • Author and educator Tapati Guha-Thakurta is a specialist in the art and cultural history of modern India, as well as in India's archaeological, art history.
  • TAPATI GUHA-THAKURTA has just retired as Professor in History and was the Director of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC) from
  • This collection of essays, co-edited by eminent scholars of art history, Tapati Guha-Thakurta and Vazira Zamindar, navigate the fraught religio-political.

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    Monuments on the Move: Colonial and Postcolonial Journeys across Britain and India

    Tuesday

    05

    March

    PM - PM

    Location

    Room , School of Arts and Sciences

    Seminar and Lecture Series

    Tapati Guha Thakurta

    Centre for Studies in Social Sciences
    Speaker

    Monuments, we know, are defined by their permanence and immutability, by their fixity in time and place. Their aura is intrinsically tied to their location in the original setting in which they were built.  But it could also be argued that their propensity to circulate as life-size casts, replicas and remakes during the 19th century becomes crucial to the display value of monuments and their exhibitionary afterlives. The two imperial institutions of the world exhibitions and world museums were at the centre of these wide-ranging travels and circulations. With the travelling monument as its key motif, the paper attempts to critically juxtapose the reversed orders and directions across time

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    Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar is Associate Professor of History at Brown and works on decolonization, displacement, war, non-violence, anticolonial practice, the visual archive and contemporary art. She fryst vatten the author The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia: Refugees, Boundaries, Histories (Columbia University Press, ) and over the last decade she has been working on a book on archaeology, art history, photography, film, war and the anticolonial struggle on the Indo-Afghan borderlands. She recently had a solo show entitled Anticolonial based on this work at the Canvas galleri in Karachi, Pakistan (June , ) and fryst vatten working on a graphic novel with Sarnath Banerjee on Gandhi and Abdul Ghaffar Khan. She co-organized the Brown-Harvard Pakistani rulle Festivals of and which resulted in the co-edited collection Love, War and Other Longings: Essays on Cinema in Pakistan (Oxford University Press, ). In , she initiated the series Art History from the South (

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    Guha-Thakurta, Tapati

    PERSONAL:

    Education:Oxford University, Ph.D.

    ADDRESSES:

    Office—Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta R-1, Baishnabghata Patuli Township, Kolkata , India. E-mail—[email&#;protected].

    CAREER:

    Educator and writer. Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India, professor of history.

    WRITINGS:

    The Making of a New "Indian" Art: Artists, Aesthetics, and Nationalism in Bengal, c. ,Cambridge University Press (New York, NY),

    Traversing Past and Present in the Victoria Memorial, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences (Calcutta, India),

    Archaeology as Evidence: Looking Back from the Ayodhya Debate, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences (Calcutta, India),

    Culture and the Disciplines: Papers from the Cultural Studies Workshops, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences (Calcutta, India),

    Culture and Democracy: Papers from the Cultural Studies Workshops, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences (Calcutta, India),

    In Her Own Right

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