Content:

1 Introduction: Reading Monuments and Seeing Texts: Michael W. Meister and the Opening of Eyes

PIKA GHOSH AND PUSHKAR SOHONI

PART I Seeing and Knowing

2 Region, Style, Idiom, and Ritual in History: Michael W. Meister on the Study of Jain Art

JOHN E. CORT

3 Conversations with Michael Meister

ROMILA THAPAR

4 Churning the Object: Michael W. Meister as Manthāna

DARIELLE MASON

5 Reminiscence

GIEVE PATEL

PART II Style and Idiom: Classification and Complexity

6 Meister Purana in Modern Indian Art

AJAY SINHA

7 Squaring a Circle: Design and Construction in the Temple of Anwa

PUSHKAR SOHONI

PART III Formal Metamorphoses and Mutability of Meaning

8 Liberating Migrations: On the Trail of Jaina Temples in Medieval Central India

TAMARA I. SEARS

9 Paper Prāsādas

NACHIKET CHANCHANI

PART IV Vernacular Craft and the Rhetoric of Re- Making

10 On Jaidev Baghel’s Practice: Casting Aside the Art / Craft Divide

KATHERINE HACKER

11 Chamba and the ‘Painterly’ Vision

MANDAVI MEHTA

PART V Image Iconopraxis and Iconoplasty

12 Nonhuman Animals on Unlabelled Sculptures of the Bharhut Stupa Railing

CHANDREYI BASU

13 Stitching Spectacles: A Visual Culture of Bodily Prowess and Muscular Nationalism in Colonial Bengal

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