Crispin Branfoot is Senior Lecturer in South Asian art & archaeology at SOAS, University of London. He is the author of Gods on the Move: architecture and ritual in the south Indian temple (2007), co-author with Roger Taylor of the catalogue for an international exhibition Captain Linnaeus Tripe: photographer of India and Burma, 1852-1860, and editor with Ruth Barnes of Pilgrimage: The Sacred Journey (2006). Books in preparation include, as editor, Portraiture in South Asia since the Mughals: Art, History, Representation and with Archana Venkatesan, In Antal's Garden: Art, Ornament and Devotion in Srivilliputtur.

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• Contributors 8Acknowledgments 91 Introduction * Crispin Branfoot 10Colonialism and the Traditional Arts 34-772 British interventions in the traditional crafts of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) c1850~1930 * Robin D Jones 343 Crafts as art in late colonial India: artisans, creativity, and colonial policy, 1880~1920 * Abigail Mcgowan 56Textiles in Western India 78-1094 Cloth and community: The local trade in resist-dyed and block-printed textiles in Kachchh district, Gujarat * Eiluned Edwards 785 The work of the Khatris of Kachchh: ajrakh and block-printed textiles * Ismail Mohammad Khatri with Eiluned Edwards 96Modernity and Hindu Visual Culture 110-1476 The contemporary Hindu shrine: Between the cultic and the exhibitory space * Jyotindra Jain 1107 From temple to mantelpiece: Changing paradigms in the art and craft of south Indian metal icons * Sharada Srinivasan 124Temple Arts in Contemporary South India 148-1938 Popular religious imagery at Kumbakonam * Anna L Dallapiccola 1489 Shapes of identity and time: A 'royal' temple in contemporary south India * Samuel K Parker 168Traditional Architecture and Modernity 194-20710 Continuing tradition: Islamic architecture in modern Pakistan * Kamil Khan Mumtaz 19411 Approaching history through design and design through history * Adam Hardy 208General Bibliography 229Index 241

Crispin Branfoot is Senior Lecturer in South Asian art & archaeology at SOAS, University of London. He is the author of Gods on the Move: architecture and ritual in the south Indian temple (2007), co-author with Roger Taylor of the catalogue for an international exhibition Captain Linnaeus Tripe: photographer of India and Burma, 1852-1860, and editor with Ruth Barnes of Pilgrimage: The Sacred Journey (2006). Books in preparation include, as editor, Portraiture in South Asia since the Mughals: Art, History, Representation and with Archana Venkatesan, In Antal's Garden: Art, Ornament and Devotion in Srivilliputtur.

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• Contributors 8Acknowledgments 91 Introduction * Crispin Branfoot 10Colonialism and the Traditional Arts 34-772 British interventions in the traditional crafts of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) c1850~1930 * Robin D Jones 343 Crafts as art in late colonial India: artisans, creativity, and colonial policy, 1880~1920 * Abigail Mcgowan 56Textiles in Western India 78-1094 Cloth and community: The local trade in resist-dyed and block-printed textiles in Kachchh district, Gujarat * Eiluned Edwards 785 The work of the Khatris of Kachchh: ajrakh and block-printed textiles * Ismail Mohammad Khatri with Eiluned Edwards 96Modernity and Hindu Visual Culture 110-1476 The contemporary Hindu shrine: Between the cultic and the exhibitory space * Jyotindra Jain 1107 From temple to mantelpiece: Changing paradigms in the art and craft of south Indian metal icons * Sharada Srinivasan 124Temple Arts in Contemporary South India 148-1938 Popular religious imagery at Kumbakonam * Anna L Dallapiccola 1489 Shapes of identity and time: A 'royal' temple in contemporary south India * Samuel K Parker 168Traditional Architecture and Modernity 194-20710 Continuing tradition: Islamic architecture in modern Pakistan * Kamil Khan Mumtaz 19411 Approaching history through design and design through history * Adam Hardy 208General Bibliography 229Index 241

Crispin Branfoot is Senior Lecturer in South Asian art & archaeology at SOAS, University of London. He is the author of Gods on the Move: architecture and ritual in the south Indian temple (2007), co-author with Roger Taylor of the catalogue for an international exhibition Captain Linnaeus Tripe: photographer of India and Burma, 1852-1860, and editor with Ruth Barnes of Pilgrimage: The Sacred Journey (2006). Books in preparation include, as editor, Portraiture in South Asia since the Mughals: Art, History, Representation and with Archana Venkatesan, In Antal's Garden: Art, Ornament and Devotion in Srivilliputtur.

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• Contributors 8Acknowledgments 91 Introduction * Crispin Branfoot 10Colonialism and the Traditional Arts 34-772 British interventions in the traditional crafts of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) c1850~1930 * Robin D Jones 343 Crafts as art in late colonial India: artisans, creativity, and colonial policy, 1880~1920 * Abigail Mcgowan 56Textiles in Western India 78-1094 Cloth and community: The local trade in resist-dyed and block-printed textiles in Kachchh district, Gujarat * Eiluned Edwards 785 The work of the Khatris of Kachchh: ajrakh and block-printed textiles * Ismail Mohammad Khatri with Eiluned Edwards 96Modernity and Hindu Visual Culture 110-1476 The contemporary Hindu shrine: Between the cultic and the exhibitory space * Jyotindra Jain 1107 From temple to mantelpiece: Changing paradigms in the art and craft of south Indian metal icons * Sharada Srinivasan 124Temple Arts in Contemporary South India 148-1938 Popular religious imagery at Kumbakonam * Anna L Dallapiccola 1489 Shapes of identity and time: A 'royal' temple in contemporary south India * Samuel K Parker 168Traditional Architecture and Modernity 194-20710 Continuing tradition: Islamic architecture in modern Pakistan * Kamil Khan Mumtaz 19411 Approaching history through design and design through history * Adam Hardy 208General Bibliography 229Index 241