In A Fragile Inheritance Saloni Mathur investigates the radical work of two seminal artistic and intellectual figures from the global South: the New Delhi-based critic and curator, Geeta Kapur, and her husband, the contemporary multimedia artist, Vivan Sundaram. Examining their body of written and visual works over the past fifty years as an integrated critical configuration, Mathur illuminates her protagonists' shared commitments to a leftist politics and critical aesthetics that embraces uncertainty, conflict, and contradiction. Together, their challenge to received notions of history present new understandings of the politics of decolonization and the role of non-Western aesthetic avant-gardes within the discourses of contemporary art. By explicating Kapur's and Sundaram's approach to artistic practice and theory, Mathur demonstrates with eloquence and passion how their work may inform subsequent generations and serve as a model for artistic politics in our time.