CONTENTS: List of Plates, Acknowledgements, Part I: FRAMING THE QUESTIONS: 1. Introduction: Sharpening the Focus: Towards Theorizing Visual Culture with Methodologies and Analytical Frames, 2. Narrativization and Consumption: Precedents and Practices in South Asian Visual Culture, 3. Performative Meaning-Making: Agency as Entrepreneurship, Creativity and Interactions, Part II: DEVELOPING 'TRADITION' AND 'THE NEW': 4. Picturing the 'Everyday', Interacting with Images, 5. From Place and Portraits to 'This is a Real Photograph', Part III: PICTURING LARGER PATTERNS AND PROCESSES: 6. Buildings and Bodies: Forming Identity-Narratives through Interactions, 7. Using Images and Interactions to 'Talk about' Issues: Public Arenas, the State and Ways of Knowing, 8. Conclusion: Modern India's 'Shape in Time': Putting Together 'New Perceptual 'Tasks' with 'Surfaces Deeply Inscribed'.