Includes bibliographical references and index.

General Introduction / by Geeta Kapur -- Contested Terrains and Critical Re-imaginings / Parul Dave Mukherji -- The Illusions and Antagonisms of Civilizational Exchange: Critical Reflections on Dismantling Asian Empires / Rustom Bharucha -- The Elephant and the Ant: Chinese and Thai Art in the 1980s and 1990s / John Anthony Clark -- Worlding Asia: A Conceptual Framework for the First Delhi Biennale / Arshiya Lokhandwala -- Cartographic Necessities: Contemporary Practices and the Making of a Brave New World / Gayatri Sinha -- Curating Barbarians: Description of a Visual Practice / Marion Pastor Roces -- Tropes and Places / Naman P. Ahuja -- Miniature, Monster, and Modernism: Curating Terror or Terror of Curating / Quddus Mirza -- An Honest Engagement with the Pitfalls (and Perks) of the Ethnic (Rubric) / Negar Azimi -- Retrieving the Far West: Towards a Curatorial Representation of the House of Islam / Ranjit Hoskote -- Interrogating the Sacred: Storylines for the Self / Nancy Adajania -- The Art of Kazakhstan as a Political Project / Valeria Ibraeva -- Interventions in the Public Sphere / Kavita Singh -- Curating Across Agonistic World / Geeta Kapur -- The Untold (the Rise of) Schisms / Shaheen Merali -- Mapping the Trajectories of Minoritarian Aesthetics and Cultural Politics / Santhosh S. -- Excavating the History of the Present: Caste as Pictorial Sign in the Works of Savi Sawarkar / Y.S. Alone -- Curatorial Work as Collective Fabrication / Oscar Ho Hing-Kay -- Archival Malpractice and Counter Strategies / Charles Merewether.