Description
Is one of the first comprehensive contributions to the rapidly developing
cross disciplinary scholarship that connects visual studies with South Asian
historiography. The key purpose of the book is to introduce scholars and
students of South Asian and Indian history to the first in-depth evaluation
of visual research methods as a valid research framework for new historical
studies. The volume identifies and evaluates current developments in visual
sociology and digital anthropology relevant to the study of contemporary
South Asian constructions of personal and national identities. Owing to its
wide-ranging theoretical methodology, from concepts of visual perception
to media semiotics, Visual Histories of South Asia covers a rich thematic
agenda with contributions ranging from ethnographic research to gender
studies, fine arts analyses, theoretical and methodological questions, economic structures, international
politics and contemporary cultural patterns. Owing to its wide-ranging theoretical methodology, from
concepts of visual perception to media semiotics, In charting the theoretical and historical advances in visual
and historical studies dedicated to South Asia, and by addressing issues of private and national memory
within regional, national, and contemporary South Asian iconography, from the mid-seventeenth century
to the early twenty-first century, and the thirteen contributions selected for this volume are of immediate
relevance to visual theorists and historians, sociologists and cultural anthropologists, as well as to students
and scholars of South Asian history and culture.