Arundhati Virmani is an historian at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Centre Norbert Elias, Marseille. Her works deal with the social and political history of colonial and contemporary India, in particular the forms and mechanisms of social aggregation, symbols and rituals of national sentiment, places and objects of memory.

• Introduction Arundhati Virmani Aesthetics in Political Culture Chapter 1. Narrating the Nation: Murals and Tapestry in the Indian and South African Parliaments Shirin Rai and Rachel Johnson Chapter 2. The Aesthetics of Sacrifice in Indian Political Culture Arundhati Virmani Chapter 3. The Politics of Aesthetics: Mussolini and Fascist Italy Simonetta Falasca Zamponi Power of Aesthetical critique Chapter 4. The Aesthetic Politics of the Techno Movement in France 1990-2010 Jean-Christophe Sevin Chapter 5. Aesthetics as Critique: A Photographic Inquiry into the Mafia Franco Zecchin Chapter 6. Beyond the Politics of Representation: Tribal Art in postcolonial India Rashmi Varma The Everyday as Aesthetics Chapter 7. Aesthetics of the Suburban Fabric: Marseilles on Foot Hendrik Sturm Chapter 8. Perfecting Political Performance: Spinning, Gandhi and Virtuosity Rebecca M. Brown Chapter 9. Pedestrian Crossings: Some Reflections on the Occasion of a Contemporary Judicial Spectacle Les Moran Chapter 10. Ordinary/Extraordinary: Art, Politics, History Maria Tamboukou Afterword Some Sociological Afterthoughts: Continuous vision and rationalizations of cultural forms, secular rituals and Aesthetics Emmanuel Pedler

Arundhati Virmani is an historian at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Centre Norbert Elias, Marseille. Her works deal with the social and political history of colonial and contemporary India, in particular the forms and mechanisms of social aggregation, symbols and rituals of national sentiment, places and objects of memory.

• Introduction Arundhati Virmani Aesthetics in Political Culture Chapter 1. Narrating the Nation: Murals and Tapestry in the Indian and South African Parliaments Shirin Rai and Rachel Johnson Chapter 2. The Aesthetics of Sacrifice in Indian Political Culture Arundhati Virmani Chapter 3. The Politics of Aesthetics: Mussolini and Fascist Italy Simonetta Falasca Zamponi Power of Aesthetical critique Chapter 4. The Aesthetic Politics of the Techno Movement in France 1990-2010 Jean-Christophe Sevin Chapter 5. Aesthetics as Critique: A Photographic Inquiry into the Mafia Franco Zecchin Chapter 6. Beyond the Politics of Representation: Tribal Art in postcolonial India Rashmi Varma The Everyday as Aesthetics Chapter 7. Aesthetics of the Suburban Fabric: Marseilles on Foot Hendrik Sturm Chapter 8. Perfecting Political Performance: Spinning, Gandhi and Virtuosity Rebecca M. Brown Chapter 9. Pedestrian Crossings: Some Reflections on the Occasion of a Contemporary Judicial Spectacle Les Moran Chapter 10. Ordinary/Extraordinary: Art, Politics, History Maria Tamboukou Afterword Some Sociological Afterthoughts: Continuous vision and rationalizations of cultural forms, secular rituals and Aesthetics Emmanuel Pedler

Arundhati Virmani is an historian at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Centre Norbert Elias, Marseille. Her works deal with the social and political history of colonial and contemporary India, in particular the forms and mechanisms of social aggregation, symbols and rituals of national sentiment, places and objects of memory.

• Introduction Arundhati Virmani Aesthetics in Political Culture Chapter 1. Narrating the Nation: Murals and Tapestry in the Indian and South African Parliaments Shirin Rai and Rachel Johnson Chapter 2. The Aesthetics of Sacrifice in Indian Political Culture Arundhati Virmani Chapter 3. The Politics of Aesthetics: Mussolini and Fascist Italy Simonetta Falasca Zamponi Power of Aesthetical critique Chapter 4. The Aesthetic Politics of the Techno Movement in France 1990-2010 Jean-Christophe Sevin Chapter 5. Aesthetics as Critique: A Photographic Inquiry into the Mafia Franco Zecchin Chapter 6. Beyond the Politics of Representation: Tribal Art in postcolonial India Rashmi Varma The Everyday as Aesthetics Chapter 7. Aesthetics of the Suburban Fabric: Marseilles on Foot Hendrik Sturm Chapter 8. Perfecting Political Performance: Spinning, Gandhi and Virtuosity Rebecca M. Brown Chapter 9. Pedestrian Crossings: Some Reflections on the Occasion of a Contemporary Judicial Spectacle Les Moran Chapter 10. Ordinary/Extraordinary: Art, Politics, History Maria Tamboukou Afterword Some Sociological Afterthoughts: Continuous vision and rationalizations of cultural forms, secular rituals and Aesthetics Emmanuel Pedler