Professor Shaffer will be using her time on the Getty-ACLS fellowship to complete her book on Maratha and British arts in Western India, 1760-1820. Much of the art in this region and period was produced in circumstances of war and diplomacy, which drew a wide array of figures and objects together. The project conceptualizes these processes as ones of "graft:" how artists and collectors joined materials from diverse sources and peoples--including those violently plundered as well as creatively sutured--to speak to diverse audiences as well as their own particular interests. By tracing grafted arts from multiple vantage points—Maratha and British, artist and patron, soldier and collector—this book charts the methods of empire-building that transformed artistic production and collection in western India and from there across India and in Britain.