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The Art of Freedom

The Art of Freedom

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and the Making of Modern India
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (1903–1988) was a prominent socialist, anticolonial and antiracist activist, champion of women’s rights, and advocate for the arts and crafts. Defying the borders of gender, nation, and race, her efforts spanned social movements and played a leading role in the creation of modern India and the development of ...
Creativity from the Periphery

Creativity from the Periphery

Trading Zones of Scientific Exchange in Colonial India
Science is usually knownbyits most successful figures and resource-rich institutions. In stark contrast, Creativity from the Peripherydraws our attention to unknown figures in science—those who remain marginalized, even neglected, within its practices. Researchers in early twentieth-century colonial India, for example, have made significant contributions to the stock of scientific ...
Cultural Landscapes of India

Cultural Landscapes of India

Imagined, Enacted, and Reclaimed
Winner, 2022 J. B. Jackson Book Prize | Winner, 2022 Landscape Studies Initiative Award Most people view cultural heritage sites as static places, frozen in time. In Cultural Landscapes in India, Amita Sinha subverts the idea of heritage as static and examines the ways that landscapes influence culture and that culture influences landscapes. ...
Of Greater Dignity than Riches

Of Greater Dignity than Riches

Austerity and Housing Design in India
Extreme poverty, which intensified in India during colonial rule, peaked in the 1920s—after decades of imperialist exploitation, famine, and disease—a time when architects, engineers, and city authorities proposed a new type of housing for India’s urban poor and industrial workers. As Farhan Karim argues, economic scarcity became ...

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