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Visual Culture and the Politics of Locality in Modern India: A Review Essay

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2006

AJAY J. SINHA
AJAY J. SINHA
Affiliation:
Mount Holyoke College, U.S.A.
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Extract

“The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as picture.”

Martin Heidegger

“Historical monuments, we can argue, live their modern lives primarily as images.”

Tapati Guha-Thakurta

Type
Research Article
Information
Modern Asian Studies , Volume 41 , Issue 1 , January 2007 , pp. 187 - 220
Copyright
© 2007 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

This essay benefits from so many conversations with Mimi Hellman, and her editorial comments, that I find it best to dedicate it to her while bearing responsibility for all its shortcomings.