Acknowledgements
Note on Transliteration and Naming Conventions
Introduction: Love in the Stacks
Sonal Khullar
HOLDING AND CARRYING
1. A Book and the Goddess: The Devimahatmya from Palm Leaf to Paper
Jinah Kim
Artist's Project 1: The Travels of a King
T. Shanaathanan
COVERING AND CAPTIONING
2. Clothing the Book: Texts, Textiles, and an Ethics of Care
Sylvia Houghteling
3. Meaning in the Margins: Kannada Captions in a Deccani Sindbadnama
Laura Weinstein
Artist's Project 2: After the Plague
Parismita Singh
CUTTING AND PASTING
4. Books That Bind: The Persianate Album and Its Widespread Circulation
Yael Rice
5. Migrations of Media: Photographic Albums, Prints, and Wall Paintings
Holly Shaffer
Artist's Project 3: Queen Victoria's Favorite Soup
Naila Mahmood
READING AND RECYCLING
6. Lithographic Assemblages: The Urdu Art Book in the Age of Print
Iftikhar Dadi
7. Books and the Matter of Art: Notes on Materiality, Dematerialization, and Value
Sonal Khullar
Artists' Project 4: Tasavvur (Imagination)
Iftikhar Dadi and Elizabeth Dadi
CRAFTING AND COLLECTING
8. Quink on My Hands
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
9. In My Father's Trunk
Anand A. Yang
Bibliography
Contributors
Index