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Sumathi Ramaswamy

James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of History
History
Box 90719, Duke University, Department of History, Durham, NC 27701
Dept of History, 325 Classroom Bldg, Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works - Artistic productions


Disobedient Subjects: Bombay, 1930-1931

Artistic production · October 30, 2025 Disobedient Subjects takes you on a visual journey through Bombay — today’s Mumbai — so that you too can bear witness, nearly a century later, to the unfolding of the Civil Disobedience Movement against colonial rule in British India’s most important comme ... Cite

B is for Bapu: The Art of the Child in Modern India

Artistic production · October 2020 The project pays tribute to the art produced by child artists of Mumbai on Mahatma Gandhi—or Bapu—the father of the nation. It draws on their colorful paintings to show the importance of the child in the making of the Mahatma. Gandhi is the most painted, ... Link to item Cite

Iconic Interruptions, Selected Works of Gigi Scaria

Artistic production · September 2017 or the secular citizen-artist of our times, is the inheritance of the twentieth century a burden to be overcome, or a gift to be embraced? Iconic Interruptions explores this question with the help of some select works of Indian artist Gigi Scaria who lives ... Link to item Cite

Going Global in Mughal India

Artistic production · October 2014 This project uses the tools of digital humanities to track the itineraries of the terrestrial globe in Mughal India. Supported by grants from the Arts and Sciences Committee on Faculty Research and the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University, I h ... Link to item Cite