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This anthology on the material culture and artistic practices in Deccani Hyderabad brings forth the materiality of underrepresented voices entangled with histories, archives, architecture, lives of images and intangible knowledge production. Uniquely positioned, this book weaves together the research methodologies of art, historical studies, ethnography and artistic practices.
Another Hyderabad in Deccan discusses the embodied network of artisanal practices in Hyderabad, the palimpsest of cultivated and collected material culture. The nine essays in the book, which are in conversation with memories of the people, photographic records, scribbles, maps, assimilating histories, biographies, habitual practices, and experiential knowledge, reflect upon the unconfessed visual repository of Hyderabad as a way of survival.
The recent art and historical studies on South Asia, especially the region and the city, have directed attention to the relevance of ecology and artistic practices. Yet, a critical consideration of the lineage between material, communities, art and ethnography remains missing. The book deals with the dusty, shadowy, grey and unacknowledged areas of visual and material culture: their historicity and contemporaneity, while presenting a range of directions and methodological interventions for conducting archival and interactive investigations.
While offering the scope of newer research on the Deccan region, the anthology provides comprehensive knowledge to students in regional, cultural and art historical studies, opens up diverse range of methodologies to assist young researchers studying South Asian visual and material culture, and foregrounds resources to the professional and entrepreneur involved in cultural industries, community engagement, and artisanal development policies.
Baishali Ghosh teaches art history and visual studies at the University of Hyderabad. Her research explores migration theories and material culture, investigating the process, production and circulation of the South Asian imageries. Her recent publications include 'Notes on Death Pictures on the Roads of Hyderabad' (2022) and 'Thinking through the Residual Shrines on the Roads of SEZ Hyderabad' (2023).
Rajarshi Sengupta is a practitioner and art historian, presently an assistant professor in fine arts, Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur (2021). Sengupta received his PhD in art history from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver (2019). His thesis reconstructed the undertheorized histories of the kalamkari textile makers of the Coromandel and Deccan. He received the IARTS Textiles of India Grant, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (2017-18), Indo-Canadian Shastri Travel Grant (2023-24), and has published on Deccani textile histories in the Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice, Journal18 and South Asian Studies.
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