<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The book, using archival sources, examines the colonial and postcolonial history of arts education in Pakistan through the National College of Arts, founded as the Mayo School of Arts in 1875. It deconstructs art history and anthropology frameworks embedded in imperial and national discourses, policies, and pedagogy</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>