Tushara Bindu Gude is formerlyassociate curator of South and Southeast Asian Art at LACMA. Kimberly Mastelleris Jeanne McCray Beals Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art, Nelson-AtkinsMuseum of Art. Katherine Anne Paul is lead curator and Virginia and William M.Spencer III Curator of Asian Art, Birmingham Museum of Art. Richard A. Pegg isthe director and curator of Asian Art for the MacLean Collection. Romita Ray is associate professor of Art Historyat Syracuse University. Laura C. Woodard is librarian and archivist, BirminghamMuseum of Art.

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• Director'sForeword; Chair's Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Making Modernity: Keysto a Century of Aspirations through Southern Asian Silver, 1830s-1930s byKatherine Anne Paul; Chapter 2 Stories of Silver: Interview with CollectorsHarish K. Patel and Veronica McDavid; Chapter 3 Silver for Ceremony by KimberlyMasteller; Chapter 4 Silver and Glory: A Consideration of Trophies, Sport, andColonialism in India by Tushara Bindu Gude; Chapter 5 Connecting CoffeeCultures of India with Birmingham: An Interview with Praveena Sundarraj; Chapter6 Tracing Tea Cultures in India: Antecedents and the Nineteenth Century by RomitaRay; Catalogue: Stories in Silver: Religious Arts; Aspirational Arts; SensorialArts; Revivalism in Silver Art; Appendix A Three Maps of India's Trade andInfrastructure from the Mid-Nineteenth to Early-Twentieth Century by Richard A.Pegg; Appendix B Timeline; Appendix C Designing Silver: Access for All in theArchives of the Birmingham Museum of Art by Laura C. Woodard; Appendix D SilversmithBiographies; Appendix E Glossary; Recommended Reading; Index; ContributorBiographies.