Contents: 1. Prologue. 2. Colonial museography a discourses. 3. Colonial museology in India. 4. Museum education in colonial milieu. 5. Nathaneil Wallich and the Asiatic museum. 6. Rja Serfoji and his museum mindedness. 7. William Carey and his museum. 8. Museography of a modernised Pandita. 9. Saga of Indian museum Kolkata. 10. Lord Curzon and Delhi Exhibition 1902-03. 11. Swadeshi movement and Bharat Kala Bhavan. 12. Colonial archaeology John Hubert Marshall and archaeological site museum. 13. British empire exhibition at Wembley 1924. 14. Exhibition of India art 1948 a reverberation of cultural nationalism. 15. National museum New Delhi and re-articulation of India's past. 16. Colonial anthropology and museum. 17. Colonial pictorial modalities museum and Indian art history. 18. Epilogue.
