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Preface
Art and Politics: The Dialectics of Duality, Affinity and Confluence - Julia A B Hegewald and Subrata K Mitra
Towards a Theory of Re-Use: Desecration, Retro and Fake Versus Improvement, Innovation and Integration - Julia A B Hegewald
The Past in the Present: Temple Conversions in Karnataka and Appropriation and Re-Use in Orissa - Julia A B Hegewald and Subrata K Mitra
Chola and Neo-Chola Temple Architecture in and around Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu - George Michell
Indian Jewellery and Nineteenth-Century Britain: Evolving Patterns of Re-Use - Nick Barnard
Re-use in the Yakshagana Theatre of Coastal Karnataka - Katrin Binder
Indian Painting at the Beginning of the 20th Century: Modernism and Re-Use of Ancient Pictorial Traditions - Tiziana Lorenzetti
Politics of Art and the Art of Politics: Re-Use of ′Tribal′ Arts and Artefacts in Modern Orissa - Prasanna K Nayak
Another Form of Re-Use? Institutional Continuity and ′Indigenisation′ of Westminster Parliamentarism and Western Party Politics in Post-Colonial India - Clemens Spiess
Myth, Idea, Dream and Vision: Nehru′s Discovery of India - Jivanta Schöttli
Use and Re-Use of ′Pakistan′ in the Indian Muslim Press (1932-1947) - Thierry DiCostanzo
Buddhism and Collective Emancipation in Modern India: A Sociological Investigation of B R Ambedkar′s Re-Use of Buddha′s Dharma in the Dalit Movement - Edward A Rodrigues
′The Jain Way of Life′: Modern Re-Use and Re-Interpretation of Ancient Jain Concepts - Sabine Scholz
Icons, Nations and Re-Use: Marianne, France and Bharat Mata, India - Subrata K Mitra and Lion König
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About the Author

Julia A B Hegewald is Professor and Head of Department of Asian and Islamic Art History, in the Institute for Oriental and Asian Studies (IOA) at the University of Bonn, Germany. She is Director of the Emmy Noether Research Project on Jainism in Karnataka, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). She has been a Reader in Art History and Visual Studies at the University of Manchester (2007–10), a postdoctoral Fellow at the South Asia Institute at Heidelberg University (2005–07) and a Research Fellow at University College Oxford (1998–2005). She graduated from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, from where she also holds a PhD. She is the author of Water Architecture in South Asia: A Study of Types, Developments and Meanings (2002), Jaina Temple Architecture in India: The Development of a Distinct Language in Space and Ritual (2009) and the editor of The Jaina Heritage: Distinction, Decline and Resilience (2010).

Subrata K Mitra was trained as a political scientist at the University of Delhi and Jawaharlal Nehru University, both in India, as well as at the University of Rochester, New York, USA. He is currently Professor and Head, Department of Political Science at the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University and was the coordinator, Area A (Governance and Administration), Cluster of Excellence—Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows (2008–2010). His publications include The Puzzle of India’s Governance: Culture, Context and Comparative Theory (2005) and When Rebels become Stakeholders (2009). He is the academic editor of Advances in South Asian Studies, Heidelberg Series in South Asian and Comparative Studies and editor of Critical Issues in the Modern Politics of South Asia (2009).

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