Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface by Monica Juneja Acknowledgements

1. Introduction: Barefoot across India: An Artist and his Country

Sumathi Ramaswamy

2. Modernist Myths and the Exile of Maqbool Fida Husain Geeta Kapur

3. Art on Trial: Civilization and Religion in the Persona and Painting of M. F. Husain David Gilmartin and Barbara D. Metcalf

4. Mapping India after Husain Sumathi Ramaswamy

5. Secret Histories of Indian Modernism: M. F. Husain as Indian Muslim Artist Ananya Jahanara Kabir

6. Of M. F. Husain and an Impossible Love Veena Das

7. ‘I am an Indian and a painter, that is all’: Intention and the Secular Subject in Contemporary India Karin Zitzewitz

8. Defending Husain in the Public Sphere: The SAHMAT Experience Ram Rahman

9. Fault-lines in a National Edifice: On the Rights and Offences of Contemporary Indian Art Tapati Guha-Thakurta

10. Taking and Making Offence: Husain and the Politics of Desecration Kajri Jain

11. The Bliss of Madhuri: Husain and his Muse Patricia Uberoi

12. Viewed from Across the Globe: The Art of M. F. Husain Susan S. Bean

13. A Metaphysical Secularist? Decoding M.F. Husain as a Muslim Painter in Exile

Bruce B. Lawrence.

Notes on Contributors.

Index