[Reader-list] India's Popular Culture: a Marg book release

[Tasveer Ghar]

Marg Publications, India International Centre, and Asia Society (India Centre)
cordially invite you to a panel discussion on Marg's latest publication

INDIA'S POPULAR CULTURE
Iconic Spaces and Fluid Images
Edited by Jyotindra Jain

Venue: The Auditorium, IIC Annexe,
40 max Mueller Marg, New Delhi 10003
On Wednesday, February 06, 2007, at 6:30 pm

Panel:
JYOTINDRA JAIN (Professor at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU, New Delhi)

SUMATHI RAMASWAMY (Professor of History at Duke University, North Carolina)

YOUSUF SAEED (Independent filmmaker and researcher, also associated
with Tasveer Ghar)

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Contents of the book

Introduction: image mobility in India's popular culture.
Jyotindra Jain

Of Gods and Globes: the territorialization of Hindu deities in popular
visual culture.
Sumathi Ramaswamy

"The Accidental Ramdev": the spread of a popular culture
Christopher Pinney

Optics for the Stage: curtains of the Surabhi Company
Anuradha Kapur

India's Republic Day Parade: restoring identities, constructing the nation
Jyotindra Jain

Mecca versus the Local Shrine: the dilemma of orientation in the
popular religious art of Indian Muslims
Yousuf Saeed

The Bombay Film Poster: a short biography
Ranjani Mazumdar

The Family Archive: photo narratives from Goan villages
Savia Viegas

The Enclaved Gaze: exploring the visual culture of "world class
living" in urban India
Christiane Brosius