Partisan AestheticsPartisan Aesthetics explores art's entanglements with histories of war, famine, mass politics and displacements that marked late colonial and postcolonial India. Introducing "partisan aesthetics" as a conceptual grid, the book identifies ways in which art became political through interactions with left wing activism during the 1940s, and the afterlives of such interactions in post independence India. Using an archive of artists and artist collectives