India and Its Visual Cultures Community, Class and Gender in a Symbolic Lanscape

includes index and biblioraphy

The photograph in Social Research: A few Ethical and Practical questions ......3
Unlikely Devis : Gender and Imagination on and Off the Silver Screen ....................28
Visualising Death and the Corpse: Perspective on Post-Mortem Photographs in Central - Eastern India ..........60
2. Folk/Artistry ..............111
9/11 and the Folk artists of Bengal ..............113
From ritual Images to animated moves : The transformative journey of the Sora Paintings .......142
Anjan sen`s Visual Poetry and the Bengal Uttar-Adhunik School .........170
3. Market signs ............201
The visual Culture of Meat-shop sign in Delhi ...........203
The imagery of Indian Matchmaking : Representations of Community, Class and Gender in a Transnational Online Matrimonial Market ............225
4. Pictorial Politics ................253
A museum, A memorial, and a Martyr: Politics of Memory in the Sikh Golden temple .........255
Divine order, Social Disorder: Debating the visual Representation of Lalu Prasad Yadav ...........278
Amma Provides for All : Popular Devotional Aesthetics, Material Politics and the Amman in Tamil Nadu ........303
5. Monumental Landscapes ...........327
Building monuments in a World - Class city : Aesthetics and Politics of Contemporary Delhi ..........329
Mayawati`s Politics of Sthals: Spectacle of the Symbolic Landscape ...............352