Tapati Guha-Thakurta. Monuments, Objects, Histories: Institutions of Art in Colonial and Postcolonial India
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عنوان ژورنال: Acta Orientalia Vilnensia
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1648-2662,2424-6026
DOI: 10.15388/aov.2006.3756