Inhalt: | The volume looks at how South Asian art was sourced for external appreciation at a variety of institutions in Europe, North America, and Asia from the mid-19th century onward. These essays speak to the colonial legacies that created such collections but that now must be viewed though a post-colonial lens. The volume also addresses contemporary concerns for todays's museums: collecting, building and practices, provenance, and repatriation Introduction / Allysa B. Peyton and Katharine Anne Paul -- "Relating to a country so distant": collecting South Asian arms and armour at the Tower of London during the nineteenth century / Natasha Bennett -- Objects across empire: the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto / Deepali Dewan -- Colonial collecting in Ceylon: dispersing the Hugh nevill (1847-1897) Collections across the British Isles / Sushma Jansari -- "We want quality and condition": the formation of Chester Beatty's South Asian manuscripts and miniatures collection / Hyder Abbas -- Collecting with Éclat: Coomaraswamy and the framing of Indian art in American museums / Brinda Kumar -- Nasli Heeramaneck: the consummate collector and connoisseur / Pratapaditya Pal -- Masterworks from missionaries & medicine, merchants & Mrs./Misses/Ms.: arts of South Asia at the Newark Museum / Katherine Anne Paul -- Collecting and curating Indian art in Southeast Asia: challenges and opportunities of representing South Asia at the Asian Civilisations Museum & the Indian Heritage Centre, Singapore / Gauri Parimoo Krishnan -- Returning "home": the journey and afterlife of repatriated objects / Melody Rod-Ari |
