Writing on American Culture

American Collectors of Indian Art: Chester and Davida Herwitz. In Midnight to the Boom: Painting in India after Independence. Susan S. Bean, ed. Pp 65 – 73. London and Salem MA: Thames & Hudson and the Peabody Essex Museum, 2013.

Viewed from Across the Globe: The Art of M. F. Husain. In Barefoot Across the Nation: Maqbool Fida Husain and the Idea of India. Sumathi Ramaswamy, ed. Pp. 235 – 252. London: Routledge, 2010.

American Collectors of Indian Art. In Goddess, Lion, Peasant, Priest: Modern and Contemporary Indian Art from the Collection of Shelley and Donald Rubin. Pp. 9 – 12.  Atlanta: Ogelthorpe University Museum of Art, 2010.

Bombay Boston: Commercial and Cultural Encounters in the Age of Sail. Mumbai: Vasant J. Sheth Memorial Foundation, 2008.

Bengal Goods for America, the Nineteenth Century. In Textiles from India: the Global Trade. Rosemary Crill, ed. Pp. 217-232. Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2006.

Yankee India: American Commercial and Cultural Encounters with India in the Age of Sail. Salem and Ahmedabad: Peabody Essex Museum and Mapin Publications, 2001.

On the Indian Origins of the Bandanna. Antiques Magazine. December, Pp. 832-839, 1999.

Bandanna: On the Indian Origins of an All-American Textile. In Textiles in Early New England: Design, Production, and Consumption. The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, Annual Proceedings 1997. Peter Benes, ed. Pp. 168-183. Boston: Boston University, 1999.

The Yankee Connection. Fezana Journal 10(1): 20-22, 1997.

Yankee Views of India. The India Magazine 12(10): 56-67, 1992.

Cold Mine [On the New England ice trade with India]. American Heritage 42(4): 71-76, 1991.

Yankee Traders and Calcutta Merchants, exhibition brochure. Delhi: U.S.I.A., 1990.

Calcutta Banians for the American Trade: Portraits of Nineteenth Century Bengali Merchants in the Collections of the Peabody Museum of Salem and the Essex Institute. In Changing Visions, Lasting Images: Calcutta Through 300 Years. Pratapaditya Pal, ed., Pp. 69-80. Bombay: Marg Publications, 1990.

The American Market for Indian Textiles, 1785-1820: In the Twilight of Traditional Cloth Manufacture. In Textiles in Trade. Proceedings of the Textile Society of America Biennial Symposium. M. Gittinger, ed. Pp.43-52, 1990.

Yankee Traders and Indian Merchants, 1785-1865. In The Festival of India, 1985. Pp. 131-37.  N.Y.: Harry N. Abrams, 1985.

Soap Operas: Sagas of American Kinship. In The American Dimension. Susan Montague and William Arens, eds. Pp. 80-98. N.Y.: Alfred Publishing Co. 1976   (Second edition 1981).  Reprinted In Anthropology for the Eighties. Johnetta B. Cole, ed. N.Y.: The Free Press, 1982.

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