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Articles by Sumathi Ramaswamy
Moving pictures: How 18th-19th century textile labels travelled the world with stories of India
“We shall deal here with humble things, things not usually granted earnest consideration, or at least not valued for their historical import. But no more in history than in painting is it the impressiveness of the subject that matters.
Disobedient Subjects: Exploring Bombay’s 1930-31 Civil Disobedience Movement Through Rare Photographs at CSMVS
The ongoing exhibition at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS) titled“Disobedient Subjects: Bombay 1930-31” (October 11, 2025-March 31, 2026),takes its viewers on a visual journey through Bombay so that they, too, can bear witness, nearly a century later, to the unfolding of the Civil Disobedience Movement against colonial rule in British India’s most important commercial city and financial capital.
How MF Husain immortalised Gandhi striding for India’s freedom
Indeed, the Mahatma in full stride appears to be Husain’s favourite manner of depicting Gandhi, although he has also painted the other iconic image of the father of the nation seated at his spinning wheel.
The Mantle of the Earth
Genealogies of a Geographical Metaphor Veronica della Dora Veronica della Dora 416 pages | 10 color plates, 71 halftones | 6 x 9 | © 2021 Cloth $65.00 ISBN: 9780226741291 Published December 2020 E-book $10.00 to $65.00 About E-books ISBN: 9780226741321 Published January 2021 The term mantle has inspired philosophers, geographers, and theologians and shaped artists’ and mapmakers’ visual vocabularies for thousands of years.
The Wretched of the Nation
Abstract In 2010, the author published a book titled The Goddess and the Nation: Mapping Mother India (Duke University Press) in which she demonstrated how the deified body of Mother India and the geo-body of India – as iconised by the outline map – are put to work over the course of the long twentieth century by India's ‘barefoot cartographers’ to transform the nation-space into a sacred pastoral landscape worth living and dying for.
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