Saloni Mathur is Associate Professor at the Department of Art History at UCLA. Kavita Singh is Associate Professor at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

• Introduction Saloni Mathur and Kavita Singh. Part I: Inaugural Formations 1. The Transformation of Objects into Artifacts, Antiquities and Art in Nineteenth-century India I,Bernard Cohn /I, 2. The Museum in the Colony: Collecting, Conserving, Classifying I,Tapati Guha-Thakurta /I, 3. Staging Science I,Gyan Prakash /I, Part II: National Re-orientations 4. The Museum is National I,Kavita Singh /I, 5. Grace McCann Morley and the Display of Indian Modernity I,Kristy Phillips /I, 6. Museumising Modern Art: National Gallery of Modern Art, the Indian Case-Study I,Vidya Shivadas /I, Part III: Contemporary Engagements 7. Museums are good to Think: Heritage on View in India I,Arjun Appadurai and Carol Breckenridge /I, 8. Recollecting the Rural in Suburban Chennai I,Mary Hancock /I, 9. Reincarnations of the Museum: The Museum in an Age of Religious Revivalism I,Saloni Mathur and Kavita Singh /I, 10. Museum Watching (13 ethnographic portraits from the field). I,About the Editors /I,. I,Notes on Contributors /I,. I,Bibliography /I,. I,Index /I,