“The Empire’s Small Print: Microhistories of Ruins, Rhetoric, and Revenue in Late Colonial South Asia”
The early 20th century saw an enormous interest from the British Indian government in the preservation of India’s Ancient Monuments. This talk examines the micro histories of monument-making in the aftermath of the legislation in the subcontinent. Focusing on smaller Hindu temples, Sufi shrines, and mosques, Ghosh reveals the ways in which minor shrines and neglected structures became sites of fraught interaction between the colonial state and its Indian subjects.
After the talk, join the speaker and friends from the Department of Art History for a reception in the Chazen’s Mead Witter Lobby.
