Old Stacks, New Leaves

Sonal Khullar is W. Norman Brown Associate Professor of South Asian Studies in the Department of History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania. She is author of Worldly Affiliations: Artistic Practice, National Identity, and Modernism in India, 1930-1990. Contributors: Elizabeth Dadi, Iftikhar Dadi, Sylvia Houghteling, Jinah Kim, Naila Mahmood, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Yael Rice, Holly Shaffer, T. Shanaathanan, Parismita Singh, Laura Weinstein, and Anand A. Yang

Acknowledgements Note on Transliteration and Naming Conventions Introduction: Love in the Stacks Sonal Khullar HOLDING AND CARRYING 1. A Book and the Goddess: The Devimahatmya from Palm Leaf to Paper Jinah Kim Artist's Project 1: The Travels of a King T. Shanaathanan COVERING AND CAPTIONING 2. Clothing the Book: Texts, Textiles, and an Ethics of Care Sylvia Houghteling 3. Meaning in the Margins: Kannada Captions in a Deccani Sindbadnama Laura Weinstein Artist's Project 2: After the Plague Parismita Singh CUTTING AND PASTING 4. Books That Bind: The Persianate Album and Its Widespread Circulation Yael Rice 5. Migrations of Media: Photographic Albums, Prints, and Wall Paintings Holly Shaffer Artist's Project 3: Queen Victoria's Favorite Soup Naila Mahmood READING AND RECYCLING 6. Lithographic Assemblages: The Urdu Art Book in the Age of Print Iftikhar Dadi 7. Books and the Matter of Art: Notes on Materiality, Dematerialization, and Value Sonal Khullar Artists' Project 4: Tasavvur (Imagination) Iftikhar Dadi and Elizabeth Dadi CRAFTING AND COLLECTING 8. Quink on My Hands Arvind Krishna Mehrotra 9. In My Father's Trunk Anand A. Yang Bibliography Contributors Index

"Ingeniously reinvigorates the study of South Asia's lesser-known book arts, transforming the reader's experience into the rise and swell of artistic performance. . . . Old Stacks, New Leaves: The Arts of the Book in South Asia achieves a rare balance between historical analysis, contemporary theory, and material engagement, opening myriad pathways to the art book. Like a classical Indian music concert, the essays rise to moments of scholarly virtuosity, relax with lilting refrains of insight, and resolve into profound discoveries." (CAA Reviews) "[An] exciting new publication. . . . The scholarship complicates common understandings of South Asian bookmaking, whose regional practice and access benefited from Indic, Western, Islamic, and cross-cultural influences in the last millennium. Regardless of readers' existing knowledge about book histories, a compelling essay or an inspiring image will surely pique their interest." (Hyperallergic)