A history of the evolving idea of India in the 20th century, as seen through visual representations of the goddess Mother India.

List of Illustrations xi
Acknowledgments xv
Prologue: Yearning for Form 1
1. Formal Concerns 13
2. Other Women, Other Mothers 73
3. Vande Mataram 117
4. Enshrining the Map of India 151
5. Between Men, Map, and Mother 177
6. Daughters of India 237
Epilogue: Pictorial History in the Age of the World Picture 283
Notes 301
References 353
Index 371