Akash Bharadwaj
Biographic Data
| ID | 9498829 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Akash Bharadwaj |
| GIVEN NAMES | Akash |
| FAMILY NAME | Bharadwaj |
| SIGNATURE | BHARADWAJ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of History and Archaeology Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence Dadri Uttar Pradesh India |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-1750-0058 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
‘Seeing’ in the museums of South Asia
Administrators and museum professionals in South Asia have often viewed visitors as passive, illiterate, or incapable of meaningful engagement, frequently characterising museums as 'Ajaib Ghars' (Houses of Wonder). Drawing on discussions such as Mark Elliott’s notion of 'side-effects' and Shaila Bhatti’s deployment of 'nazar'—an oblique, sensory, and culturally inflected mode of looking—this essay challenges such reductive perceptions by foregrou…
A museum of international standard in Patna, India
This essay locates the creation of the Bihar Museum within the context of emerging international and transnational aspirations, especially in the post‐liberalization era, and the regional space of Bihar and its political economy. It argues that this positioning, where the museum is supposed to cater to both the regional and the transnational, or the local and the global, presents opportunities as well as challenges. In other words, the state's br…
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A museum of international standard in Patna, India
This essay locates the creation of the Bihar Museum within the context of emerging international and transnational aspirations, especially in the post‐liberalization era, and the regional space of Bihar and its political economy. It argues that this positioning, where the museum is supposed to cater to both the regional and the transnational, or the local and the global, presents opportunities as well as challenges. In other words, the state's br…
‘Seeing’ in the museums of South Asia
Administrators and museum professionals in South Asia have often viewed visitors as passive, illiterate, or incapable of meaningful engagement, frequently characterising museums as 'Ajaib Ghars' (Houses of Wonder). Drawing on discussions such as Mark Elliott’s notion of 'side-effects' and Shaila Bhatti’s deployment of 'nazar'—an oblique, sensory, and culturally inflected mode of looking—this essay challenges such reductive perceptions by foregrou…
Museums and Cultural Heritage (2 works) · Ancient history (1 work) · Contemplation (1 work) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (1 work) · evil eye (1 work) · Gaze (1 work) · History (1 work) · indifference (1 work) · intimacy (1 work) · Libraries and Information Services (1 work)