Kajri Jain is associate professor in art history and visual studies at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on images at the interface between religion, politics, and vernacular business cultures in modern and contemporary India; she also writes on contemporary art. She is the author of Gods in the Bazaar: The Economies of Indian Calendar Art (Duke University Press, 2007), and is currently completing a book on the emergence of monumental iconic sculptures in post-liberalization India, Gods in the Time of Democracy (Duke University Press, forthcoming).