Revisiting the 1959 Artifact Donation from the Government of India to Malaya
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Location
S020, Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA
Sponsors
Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University
Southeast Asia Initiative, Harvard Asia Center
In 1959, the University of Malaya Art Museum (predecessor institution of the NUS Museum) received a significant donation from India. In her lecture, Priya Maholay-Jaradi explores this donation through the lens of decolonization, Third World solidarity, and nation-building, revealing the complex political and personal contexts behind it. This lecture was first presented as part of the third edition of the NUS Museum's Anniversary Lecture series.
Priya Maholay-Jaradi
Convenor for Art History & Senior Lecturer at the Department of History of the National University of Singapore
Moderator: Jinah Kim, George P. Bickford Professor of Indian and South Asian Art and Professor of South Asian Studies at Harvard University