About Rashmi Varma
Rashmi Varma is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick. She is the author of The Postcolonial City and its Subjects: London, Nairobi, Bombay (Routledge, 2011), and is currently working on a book entitled Modern Tribal: Representing Indigeneity in Postcolonial India. She is a member of Women Against Fundamentalism and is a founder-board member of the Centre for Secular Space.

An excerpt from a discussion of the art
of painting practised by Gonds in the city of Bhopal in central India, which
makes a case for moving the discussion of tribal or adivasi art away from
anti-globalization readings that see it and its predicament in the modern world
as a form of tragedy.




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