Tapati Guha-Thakurta was Professor in History at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, which she directed from 2012 to 2017. Her work is located within the disciplinary fields of cultural history, history of art and visual studies. She has written widely and taught courses on the themes of art, nationalism and modernity, art history and archaeology, the careers of monuments and museum objects, and popular urban visual culture of modern and contemporary India. Three of her most prominent works are The Making of a New 'Indian' Art: Artists, Aesthetics and Nationalism in Bengal (Cambridge University Press, 1992), Monuments, Objects, Histories: Institutions of Art in Colonial and Postcolonial India (Columbia University Press, and Permanent Black, 2004), and In the Name of the Goddess: The Durga Pujas of Contemporary Kolkata (Primus Books, 2015). Vazira Zamindar is associate professor of history at Brown University, Rhode Island, and her work focuses on decolonization, displacement, war, nonviolence, the visual archive, and contemporary art. She is the author of The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia: Refugees, Boundaries, Histories (Columbia University Press, 2007), and co-editor of Love, War, and Other Longings: Essays on Cinema in Pakistan (Oxford University Press, 2020). She initiated the interdisciplinary forum Art History from the South (2018–20) and collaborates with the Decolonial Initiative on Migration of Objects and People at Brown University.
