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Sumathi Ramaswamy

Sumathi Ramaswamy

James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of History
History
sr76@duke.edu
Box 90719, Duke University, Department of History, Durham, NC 27701
Dept of History, 325 Classroom Bldg, Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works - Books

Gandhi in the Gallery: The Art of Disobedience

Book · 2020 Mohandas K. Gandhi has been described as ‘an artist of non-violence,’ crafting as he did a set of practices of the self and politics that earned him the mantle of Mahatma, ‘the great soul.’ His philosophy and praxis of satyagraha, non-violent civil disobed ... Cite

Empires of Vision: A Reader

Book · February 2014 Cite

The Goddess and the Nation: Mapping Mother India

Book · 2010 From the cover copy: Making the case for a new kind of visual history, The Goddess and the Nation charts the pictorial life and career of Bharat Mata, “Mother India,” the Indian nation imagined as mother/goddess, embodiment of national territory, and unify ... Cite

Barefoot across the Nation: Maqbool Fida Husain and the Idea of India

Book · 2010 Barefoot across the Nation is the first inter-disciplinary effort to engage with the work and recent travails of Maqbool Fida Husain, arguably his country’s most celebrated modernist, whose professional life is intimately entangled with and revelatory of t ... Cite

The Lost Land of Lemuria: Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic Histories

Book · 2004 This is a fascinating study of Lemuria--a mythical continent which was once believed to bridge the land masses of India and Africa millennia ago before ultimately sinking into the Indian sea. ... Cite