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This seminar examines the collection, use, interpretation, and display of India’s history and material culture in American and European museums. Students will be introduced to the art historical and cultural significance of a wide variety of objects in museum collections and engage with the related issues of 'aesthetic colonialism', value, authenticity, and repatriation. Discussions will draw on a range of museum case studies, scholarship on the colonial imaginary and the politics of collecting practices, and current curatorial perspectives.