Silver & Ceremony from South & Southeast Asia, 1830-1930

Tushara Bindu Gude is formerly associate curator of South and Southeast Asian Art at LACMA. Kimberly Masteller is Jeanne McCray Beals Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Katherine Anne Paul is lead curator and Virginia and William M. Spencer III Curator of Asian Art, Birmingham Museum of Art. Richard A. Pegg is the director and curator of Asian Art for the MacLean Collection. Romita Ray is associate professor of Art History at Syracuse University. Laura C. Woodard is librarian and archivist, Birmingham Museum of Art.

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.