The Making of a New 'Indian' Art: Artists, Aesthetics and Nationalism in Bengal, C.1850 1920 Book

List of illustrations; Photographic acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Glossary; Preface; Introduction; 1. Artisans, artists and popular picture production in nineteenth-century Calcutta; 2. The art-school artists in Calcutta: professions, practice and patronage in the late nineteenth century; 3. Indigenous commercial enterprise and the popular art market in Calcutta: the emergence of a new Indian iconography; 4. Tradition and nationalism in Indian art: art-histories and aesthetic discourse in Bengal in the late nineteenth century; 5. Orientalism and the new claims for Indian art: the ideas of Havell, Coomaraswamy, Okakura and Nivedita; 6. The contest over tradition and nationalism: differing aesthetic formulations for 'Indian' painting; 7. Artists and aesthetics: Abanindranath Tagore and the 'New School of Indian Painting'; Epilogue: the twenties; Bibliography; Index.