Talk:Saloni Mathur

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By Sachi Anjunkar


Saloni Mathur is a Professor, Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art. Department Chair at University of California[1] as of April 2024. According to her university profile, her areas of specialty include the visual cultures of modern South Asia and its diasporas, colonial studies and postcolonial criticism, museum studies in a global frame, and modern and contemporary South Asian art.

In 2016, she signed a letter endorsing a letter submitted by the South Asia Faculty Group[2][3] where it addressed the State Board of Education, California Department of Education, dated May 17, 2016. In this letter they requested removing the word India from textbooks. In addition, they falsely[4] stated:

  1. "There is no established connection between Hinduism and the Indus Civilization."
  2. "It is inappropriate to remove mention of the connection of caste to Hinduism."


Publication related to India[edit]

Books[edit]

  1. Mathur, Saloni. A Fragile Inheritance: Radical Stakes in Contemporary Indian Art. Duke University Press, 2019.
  2. Mathur, Saloni. India by Design: Colonial History and Cultural Display. University of California Press, 2007.
  3. Mathur, Saloni, and Kavita Singh, editors. No Touching, No Spitting, No Praying: The Museum in South Asia. Routledge, 2015.
  4. Mathur, Saloni, editor. The Migrant’s Time: Rethinking Art History and Diaspora. Clark Art Institute/Yale University Press, 2011.
  5. Mathur, Saloni. Making Strange: Gagawaka + Postmortem by Vivan Sundaram. Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2015.

Articles[edit]

  1. Mathur, Saloni. "Museums and the Incomplete Project of Postcoloniality." Journal of Material Culture, vol. 11, no. 1-2, 2006, pp. 47-65.
  2. Mathur, Saloni. "A Retake of Sher-Gil's Self-Portrait as Tahitian." Critical Inquiry, vol. 37, no. 3, 2011, pp. 515-544.

Book Chapters[edit]

  1. Mathur, Saloni. "Reincarnations of the Museum: The Museum in an Age of Religious Revivalism." In No Touching, No Spitting, No Praying: The Museum in South Asia, edited by Saloni Mathur and Kavita Singh, Routledge, 2015, pp. 203-218.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Saloni Mathur University Profile accessed 18 April, 2024
  2. ↑ 5-17 Prof. S. Shankar et al support letter
  3. ↑ 5-17 Kamala Visweswaran South Asian Faculty Group
  4. ↑ Gupta, S. P. 'The Dawn of Civilization.' In History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization: Volume I: Part 1, edited by G. C. Pandey and D. P. Chattopadhyaya. New Delhi: Centre for Studies in Civilizations, 1999.
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