Priya Jha is Professor of English and Director of Media and Visual Culture Studies at the University of Redlands, USA. Her work is located in postcolonial, global, and transnational film and cultural studies. She has published widely on topics as diverse as nationalism, gender, and sexuality in Hindi cinema; Afro-Asian literature and film; and comparative feminisms. Currently, she is writing a memoir, Not That Kind of Indian, and a monograph entitled Deliberate Designs: Affect and Aesthetics in Postcolonial Literature and Culture.Rajinder Dudrah is Professor of Cultural Studies and Creative Industries in the Birmingham Institute of Media and English, Birmingham City University, UK. He has researched and published widely across film, media, and cultural studies. His books include, amongst others, Bollywood Travels: Culture, Diaspora and Border Crossings in Popular Hindi Cinema (Routledge). He is also the founding co-editor of the journal South Asian Popular Culture.

• IntroductionPriya Jha and Rajinder Dudrah 1. Memories of violence: Of emotional geographies and planning in post-Partition Delhi, 1948–62Aprajita Sarcar2. Absence of the ‘un-exchangeable’ monument: Cinematic design and national identity in a time of partitionAditi Chandra3. ‘Architectures of happiness’: Designing the Malltiplex in IndiaTupur Chatterjee4. From deframing the oriental imagery to the making of the alternative other: Remapping the spaces of encounterDilpreet Bhullar5. From craft to couture: Contemporary Indian fashion in historical perspectiveTara Mayer6. Transnational homespun, citizen-art and Hindu-Muslim Gandhi ashrams: A working note on, against, and toward spiritualityTim Dobe and Aaron Sinift7. Evolving sense of visualizing the divine in popular Islam in Pakistan: An ethnographic case studyGhulam Abbas8. Counter-epistemologies of the global South: Indian floor drawings re-envisagedRenate Dohmen9. Printing princely modernity: Lithographic design in Muslim-ruled princely statesAmanda Lanzillo10. Designing a visual palimpsest through film: A critical examination of Jodhaa Akbar and the nationalist narrativeReema Chowdhary, Shaifali Arora and Nirmala Menon

Priya Jha is Professor of English and Director of Media and Visual Culture Studies at the University of Redlands, USA. Her work is located in postcolonial, global, and transnational film and cultural studies. She has published widely on topics as diverse as nationalism, gender, and sexuality in Hindi cinema; Afro-Asian literature and film; and comparative feminisms. Currently, she is writing a memoir, Not That Kind of Indian, and a monograph entitled Deliberate Designs: Affect and Aesthetics in Postcolonial Literature and Culture.Rajinder Dudrah is Professor of Cultural Studies and Creative Industries in the Birmingham Institute of Media and English, Birmingham City University, UK. He has researched and published widely across film, media, and cultural studies. His books include, amongst others, Bollywood Travels: Culture, Diaspora and Border Crossings in Popular Hindi Cinema (Routledge). He is also the founding co-editor of the journal South Asian Popular Culture.

• IntroductionPriya Jha and Rajinder Dudrah 1. Memories of violence: Of emotional geographies and planning in post-Partition Delhi, 1948–62Aprajita Sarcar2. Absence of the ‘un-exchangeable’ monument: Cinematic design and national identity in a time of partitionAditi Chandra3. ‘Architectures of happiness’: Designing the Malltiplex in IndiaTupur Chatterjee4. From deframing the oriental imagery to the making of the alternative other: Remapping the spaces of encounterDilpreet Bhullar5. From craft to couture: Contemporary Indian fashion in historical perspectiveTara Mayer6. Transnational homespun, citizen-art and Hindu-Muslim Gandhi ashrams: A working note on, against, and toward spiritualityTim Dobe and Aaron Sinift7. Evolving sense of visualizing the divine in popular Islam in Pakistan: An ethnographic case studyGhulam Abbas8. Counter-epistemologies of the global South: Indian floor drawings re-envisagedRenate Dohmen9. Printing princely modernity: Lithographic design in Muslim-ruled princely statesAmanda Lanzillo10. Designing a visual palimpsest through film: A critical examination of Jodhaa Akbar and the nationalist narrativeReema Chowdhary, Shaifali Arora and Nirmala Menon

Priya Jha is Professor of English and Director of Media and Visual Culture Studies at the University of Redlands, USA. Her work is located in postcolonial, global, and transnational film and cultural studies. She has published widely on topics as diverse as nationalism, gender, and sexuality in Hindi cinema; Afro-Asian literature and film; and comparative feminisms. Currently, she is writing a memoir, Not That Kind of Indian, and a monograph entitled Deliberate Designs: Affect and Aesthetics in Postcolonial Literature and Culture.Rajinder Dudrah is Professor of Cultural Studies and Creative Industries in the Birmingham Institute of Media and English, Birmingham City University, UK. He has researched and published widely across film, media, and cultural studies. His books include, amongst others, Bollywood Travels: Culture, Diaspora and Border Crossings in Popular Hindi Cinema (Routledge). He is also the founding co-editor of the journal South Asian Popular Culture.

• IntroductionPriya Jha and Rajinder Dudrah 1. Memories of violence: Of emotional geographies and planning in post-Partition Delhi, 1948–62Aprajita Sarcar2. Absence of the ‘un-exchangeable’ monument: Cinematic design and national identity in a time of partitionAditi Chandra3. ‘Architectures of happiness’: Designing the Malltiplex in IndiaTupur Chatterjee4. From deframing the oriental imagery to the making of the alternative other: Remapping the spaces of encounterDilpreet Bhullar5. From craft to couture: Contemporary Indian fashion in historical perspectiveTara Mayer6. Transnational homespun, citizen-art and Hindu-Muslim Gandhi ashrams: A working note on, against, and toward spiritualityTim Dobe and Aaron Sinift7. Evolving sense of visualizing the divine in popular Islam in Pakistan: An ethnographic case studyGhulam Abbas8. Counter-epistemologies of the global South: Indian floor drawings re-envisagedRenate Dohmen9. Printing princely modernity: Lithographic design in Muslim-ruled princely statesAmanda Lanzillo10. Designing a visual palimpsest through film: A critical examination of Jodhaa Akbar and the nationalist narrativeReema Chowdhary, Shaifali Arora and Nirmala Menon