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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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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