India and the World with curator Naman Ahuja

Exhibiting the long history of human interaction and ingenuity

India and the World with curator Naman Ahuja

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A decorated plate with a fish in the center. The top of the bowl is broken with a large piece missing.

Chinese dish, Yuan or Ming period, 1325–75 CE, Chinese. Porcelain, Diameter of foot: 27.7 cm, Diameter from lip to lip: 46.5 cm. Central Antiquity Collection, Purana Qila, Archaeological Survey of India, New Delhi, CAC/KFS/333

By James Cuno

Oct 17, 2018 56:19 min

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The exhibition India and the World: A History in Nine Stories has an ambitious goal: to use objects to chronicle cultural, economic, and artistic exchange and influence between India and the world.

From 4,000-year-old seals from the Indus Valley found thousands of miles from where they were created to contemporary works of art made out of money and concrete, the wide-ranging exhibition centers on India to address our shared human experiences.

In this episode, Naman Ahuja, professor of the history of art at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India, describes the curatorial process for this multi-venue, multilingual exhibition and touches on some of the key objects on display.

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