Talk:Caste and Indian Art

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Hi,

The title of the article and the content are not in line. When you want to discuss caste and Indian art, why are you discussing role of Indian middle class on nationalism, impact of nationalism on modernism, and inspirational role of European painters.

The only mentione of caste in the first three sections is --

"Our obsession with empirical evidences seems to make us forget that it is only a particular class/caste that would/could leave behind empirical evidences (like stone sculptures, temples or Shastric texts) for our academic consumption. Post-Colonial historians have begun to allege that the class/caste positions of the scholars interrogating this aspect of Indian Art did not/do not call for the destruction of the existing procedural cannons, or the class/caste sensitivities of the scholars do not provide enough motivation in this direction."

And even here I am not clear what you are trying to say.

The last section on caste factor only talks about the access artists had to religious texts or visting places of worship. This is incidental.

The author has not touched upon the impact of caste system on Indian art or the absence of such an impact.

Regards MV