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First Name
Deepti
Last Name
Mulgund
Affiliation
Department of Art, Media and Performance, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence
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Keywords
South Asian Art and Architecture, Museum Studies, Art Reception, Social History of Art, Public Culture, Visual Culture, Urban Studies, Colonialism, Picnics, Monuments
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About Me

I am an art historian specializing in 19th and early 20th century South Asian art. My interest lies, primarily, in tracking the intersections between art and the social sphere, by way of institutional histories, art reception, museum studies and critical social histories of art.

Recent Publications
Mulgund, Deepti. 2024. “Civilising Subject(s): Drawing Pedagogy in Bombay in the Age of Industrial Capitalism and Empire.” Paedagogica Historica, October, 1–22. doi:10.1080/00309230.2024.2402755.
Mulgund, Deepti. 2024. “Beyond conservation: Royal picnics at Elephanta and the legitimization of empire,” Modern Asian Studies, 58(1), pp. 163–192. doi:10.1017/S0026749X23000240.
‘Art Collections in Princely States,’ in Twentieth Century Indian Art, eds. Partha Mitter, Parul Dave-Mukherji, and Rakhee Balaram, Thames and Hudson, Art Alive Foundation. February 2022.
‘The Museum at Aundh: Rewriting the Codes of Kingship, Citizenship and the Art-Museum,’ in Eurasian Encounters: Museums, Missions, Modernities, eds. Carolien Stolte and Yoshiyuki Kikuchi, Amsterdam University Press, January 2017. ISBN: 9789089648839
‘Imaginaries of the Art Museum: Banaras and Aundh in Colonial India,’ in Images of the Art Museum: Connecting Gaze and Discourse in the History of Museology, eds. Eva-Maria Troelenberg and Melania Savino, Walter De Gruyter, March 2017, ISBN: 9783110338874.
Media Coverage
Country Focus
India
Expertise by Geography
India
Expertise by Chronology
19th century, Modern, 20th century, 21st century
Expertise by Topic
Art & Architectural History, Colonialism, Museums, Urban History