[Reader-list] Fantasizing the Mughals and Popular Perceptions of the Taj Mahal

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Dear friends

Greetings from Tasveer Ghar, the house of images.



We are glad to announce a brand new visual essay about the popular imagery
of Taj Mahal written by Catherine Asher, based on the images from the Priya
Paul archive as well the author’s collection.



Fantasizing the Mughals and Popular Perceptions of the Taj Mahal

http://tasveerghar.net/cmsdesk/essay/114/



The essay not only looks at the popular perceptions about the monument
through the 19th century but also discusses the Taj as a symbol of love in
the present scenario, and how its images have traversed through lands beyond
India. It also explores how the Taj became a national monument of India and
who does it really belong to.



The author Catherine Asher is a professor in the Department of Art History
at the University of Minnesota. She has written extensively on Indian art
and architecture since 1200 in a series of essays and books, but has been
particularly interested in the Mughals and how they were perceived in the
19th through 21st centuries. Her essay “Multiple Memories: Lives of the Taj
Mahal,” in Crossing Cultures: Conflict / Migration / Convergence, (2008) is
a recent reflection of this interest.



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other features related to south Asian popular visual culture.



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