Silver elevates use, not only
for the diverse religious rituals of Southern Asia, but also consumption of and
access to once-new items: photographs, mirrors, railways, and automobiles;
newly invented or traded foods including tea, coffee, Indian pale ale, wines, dairy
products, relishes, fruits and seasonings. Many of these items originated in
Southern Asia and were among the first tinned or bottled items to circulate in
global markets.
A discussion of Southern Asian
silver's artistry, functionality and cultural and economic soft power is
accompanied by a spectacular array of 130 suites of silver and 22 design
drawings.
Director's
Foreword; Chair's Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Making Modernity: Keys
to a Century of Aspirations through Southern Asian Silver, 1830s-1930s by
Katherine Anne Paul; Chapter 2 Stories of Silver: Interview with Collectors
Harish K. Patel and Veronica McDavid; Chapter 3 Silver for Ceremony by Kimberly
Masteller; Chapter 4 Silver and Glory: A Consideration of Trophies, Sport, and
Colonialism in India by Tushara Bindu Gude; Chapter 5 Connecting Coffee
Cultures of India with Birmingham: An Interview with Praveena Sundarraj; Chapter
6 Tracing Tea Cultures in India: Antecedents and the Nineteenth Century by Romita
Ray; Catalogue: Stories in Silver: Religious Arts; Aspirational Arts; Sensorial
Arts; Revivalism in Silver Art; Appendix A Three Maps of India's Trade and
Infrastructure from the Mid-Nineteenth to Early-Twentieth Century by Richard A.
Pegg; Appendix B Timeline; Appendix C Designing Silver: Access for All in the
Archives of the Birmingham Museum of Art by Laura C. Woodard; Appendix D Silversmith
Biographies; Appendix E Glossary; Recommended Reading; Index; Contributor
Biographies.
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