Online/Offline Resources
on South Asian Popular Culture and Arts
The following links open to webpages outside of Tasveer Ghar

Books (in alphabetical order, author-wise):

vBrosius, Christiane. 2010. India’s Middle Class. New Forms of Urban Leisure, Consumption and Prosperity. New Delhi, London, New York: Routledge. 

Dawson, Barry. 2001. Street Graphics India: London: Thames and Hudson

Dwyer, Rachel and Divia Patel. 2002. Cinema India: The Visual Culture of Hindi Film. London: Reaktion Books 

Geetha,Kajri V., Rao, Sirish (eds.). 2001. An Ideal Boy: Charts from India. Dewi Lewis Publishing

Harrison, Samatha, and Bari Kumar. (eds.). Pop Culture - India Bazaar: Vintage Indian Graphics. TASCHEN Books

Jain, Jyotindra (ed.). 2008. India’s Popular Culture. Mumbai: Marg Publications

ibid. 2004. Indian PopularCulture. The Conquest of the World as Picture. Nw Delhi: National Galelry of Modern Art

Jain, Kajri. 2008. Gods in the Bazaar. The Economies of Indian Calendar Art. Durham: Duke University Press  

Erwin Neumayer, Christine Schelberger. 2003. Raja Ravi Varma and the Printed Gods of India. New Delhi: OUP   

Pinney, Christopher. 2008. The Coming of Photography in India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press

ibid. 2004. Photos of the Gods. The Printed Image and Political Struggle in India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press

ibid. 1997. Camera Indica. The Social Life of Indian Photographs. London: Reaktion Books, Chicago: University of Chicago Press

Srinivas, Deepa. 2010. History, Masculinity and the Amar Chitra Katha. New Delhi: Routledge 

Ramaswamy, Sumathi. 2010. The Goddess and the Nation: Mapping Mother India. Durham: Duke University Press

ibid. 2003. Beyond Appearances? Visual Practices and Ideologies in Modern India. New Delhi: Sage Publications (Contributions to Indian Sociology Studies, Occasional Papers 10)

Uberoi, Patricia. 2009 (2006). Freedom and Destiny. Gender, Family and Popular Culture in India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press

 


Articles

Jain, Jyotindra. 2003.  "Indian Popular Culture. 'The Conquest of the World as Picture'". In Peter Seel (ed.). body.city. New Perspectives from India. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Tulika: Delhi

Sinha, Gayatri. 2005. "Slow dies the calendar art". The Hindu, 15 July (online version)

 


Artists working on/with South Asian popular visual culture

Sukanya Rahman: Gallery. Montages, mixed media and photographs 

 

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