Perspectives

Solar Symbolism in Mughal Art and Architecture
Robin ThomasRobin Thomas
Museum of Memories: Community-Led Preservation of Kashmir’s Gojri Heritage
Yaqoob Ali & Majid MaqboolYaqoob Ali & Majid Maqbool
From Paris to Patiala: Art Deco’s Indian Turn
Sneha SridharSneha Sridhar
What Happens in the Margins
Professor BN GoswamyProfessor BN Goswamy
Practice and Care: A Conversation with Artist-Mothers Rekha Rodwittiya and Kakoli Sen
Aadya BaoniAadya Baoni
Wife, Mother, Warrior: Female Akalis in Colonial Art
Tanya MascarenhasTanya Mascarenhas
The Deities of Maladies: Goddess Cults Around Pandemics
Rachna ShettyRachna Shetty
Asif Khan’s Tomb: The Experiment that Shaped the Taj Mahal
Shreya NithyanandanShreya Nithyanandan
Shifting Centres: An Interview with Sri Lankan Curator Sharmini Pereira
Rush MukherjeeRush Mukherjee
Travelling Plays: Shadow Puppetry’s Journey Across Borders
Khushi KesariKhushi Kesari
Moving Pictures: An Interview with Filmmaker Amit Dutta
Jatin DagarJatin Dagar
Noble Vices: Intoxicants in Mughal Courtly Culture
Kratika KhatriKratika Khatri
Killing the Tiger: ‘Shikar’ in Colonial India
Rachna ShettyRachna Shetty
Reviving a Stepwell: Inside Delhi’s Rajon ki Baoli
Akshay SharmaAkshay Sharma
Gender and Caste in India’s Early Vernacular Cookbooks
Sohel SarkarSohel Sarkar
Pulp Fictions: Unravelling Ravikumar Kashi’s Paper Work
Aranya PadilAranya Padil
What Makes a Book Cover Design ‘Indian’?
Bhavna BhasinBhavna Bhasin
Modelling Possibilities: An Interview with Experimenter’s Prateek and Priyanka Raja
Rush MukherjeeRush Mukherjee
The Ruins of Egmore
Thasil Suhara BackerThasil Suhara Backer
The Many Lives of the Indian ‘Nightie’
Anmol VenkateshAnmol Venkatesh
Men as Brides: Ritual and Gender Play in Kashmiri Weddings
Parsa TariqParsa Tariq
Gothic in Translation: Architectural Adaptation in Colonial Bombay
Shreya NithyanandanShreya Nithyanandan
On Reclaiming Indigenous Creativity: An Interview with Sudhir John Horo
Devika GanapathyDevika Ganapathy
What the Image Knows: The Art of Indo-British Textile Labels
Sumathi RamaswamySumathi Ramaswamy
Looking at Female Divinity in Assamese Neo-Vaishnavite Painting
Deeplakshmi SaikiaDeeplakshmi Saikia
A State of Crisis: Folk Culture in West Bengal
Malini BhattacharyaMalini Bhattacharya
From Rage to Rest: An Interview with Artist Sheelasha Rajbhandari
Shristi ShresthaShristi Shrestha
The Murals of Cheppad: Early Christian Art in India
Sneha Mary MathewSneha Mary Mathew
The Last Court Painter
Aadya BaoniAadya Baoni
How Sufi ‘Dhikr’ Shaped Kashmir’s Architecture
Adil Amin AkhoonAdil Amin Akhoon
Handcrafting Fonts: An Interview with The Typecraft Initiative
Priyanka SachetiPriyanka Sacheti
Beyond the Visible: ‘Dhvani’ in Visual Arts
Peddinti Sri KavyaPeddinti Sri Kavya
The Art of Pichwai Conservation: ‘Delighting Krishna’ at the Smithsonian
Bindu Gopal RaoBindu Gopal Rao
The Humble Allure of the Chhapa Sari
Dr Pritha DasmahapatraDr Pritha Dasmahapatra
Clothwork Opacities: An Interview with Artist Bhasha Chakrabarti
Karno DasguptaKarno Dasgupta
After Words: Ram Kumar’s Landscapes of Silence
Aditya PandyaAditya Pandya
Bringing Back the Gods: Repatriation Activism in Nepal
Sarita RamamoorthySarita Ramamoorthy
The Indian Kodak Girl’s Domestic Turn
Dr Greeshma C PDr Greeshma C P
The Vanishing Legacy of Goa’s Oyster Shell Windows
Joanna LoboJoanna Lobo
Speculative Futures and Cultural Pasts: An Interview with Artists Murthovic and Thiruda
Soumya MukerjiSoumya Mukerji
How Trade, Textiles, and Ambitious Commissions Made Modern Ahmedabad
Aswathy GopinathAswathy Gopinath
The Sacred and the Spectacular: Bengal’s Durga Puja Pandals as Temporary Art Galleries
Aishani GuptaAishani Gupta
Trade, Power, Imagination: A 16th Century Portuguese Atlas
Harleen Kaur BaggaHarleen Kaur Bagga
Desires, Reactions, Interpretations: Murals and Inscriptions from Sigiriya
Sarthak SharmaSarthak Sharma
Hortus Malabaricus — How the Garden of Malabar Travelled the World
Rachna Shetty Rachna Shetty
Taken From Life: The Case of a 16th-century Indo-Portuguese Album
Harleen Kaur BaggaHarleen Kaur Bagga
Mediated Conversations: Threshold Floor Drawings and the Blurring of the Private and the Public
Alolika DeAlolika De
Art and Power: Networks of Patronage in Contemporary South Asia
Rachna ShettyRachna Shetty
Interior Worlds: The Legacy of Studio Photography in India
Varun NayarVarun Nayar
The Business of Dreams: Photographs from the Studio of Suresh Punjabi
Varun NayarVarun Nayar
Understanding Adivasi Artists in the Contemporary Context
Mustafa KhanbhaiMustafa Khanbhai
Dancing Bodies, Moving Touch: Textiles, Materiality and Touch in Indian Dance
Krishna P UnnyKrishna P Unny
In the Eye of the Beholder: Images, Imperialism, and a Photographic Record of British India
Rachna ShettyRachna Shetty
Celebratory Processions: Art Historical Records and What They Tell Us
Simran AgarwalSimran Agarwal
Adorned in Dreams: Art and Poetry on Pakistan’s Highways
Karishma KoshalKarishma Koshal
Textile Soundscapes: Weaving Song, Work and Memory
Chandrica Barua, Simran Agarwal, Niyati DaveChandrica Barua, Simran Agarwal, Niyati Dave
Surrounded by Scent: Perfumery in the Courtly Cultures of Early-Modern South Asia
Simran AgarwalSimran Agarwal
European Engravings and Christian Symbols in the Mughal Miniature Painting Tradition
Simran AgarwalSimran Agarwal
Collaboration, Invention and Artistic Development: The Kitabkhanas of Mughal South Asia
Simran AgarwalSimran Agarwal
Opium and the Orient: An Intoxicant Made by Indian Labour
Chandrica BaruaChandrica Barua
The Travelling Gates: A Misadventure with Restoration
Karishma KoshalKarishma Koshal
A Sticky Reputation: South Asia Through Mangoes Then and Now
Karishma KoshalKarishma Koshal
An Indian Dancer Through an American Lens: Ram Gopal Visits Carl van Vechten
Krishna P UnnyKrishna P Unny
The Palais Indiens: Early Architectural Studies of Monuments in India
Aswathy GopinathAswathy Gopinath
Documenting Trauma: The Colonial Gaze and the Ethics of Photography in 19th Century India and Myanmar
Rachna ShettyRachna Shetty
In Perpetual Bloom: Pietra Dura Ornamentation at the Taj Mahal
Arundhati ChauhanArundhati Chauhan
Kalila wa Dimna: Arabic Fables Inspired by the Panchatantra
Chandrica BaruaChandrica Barua
Jain Monks, Scythian Princes and Persianate Influences: A 15th-century Folio
Simran Agarwal Simran Agarwal
When Queen Victoria Tried to “Place Her Authority on the Mughal Throne”
Niyati Dave, Pallavi SuranaNiyati Dave, Pallavi Surana
The Courtesan Who Commanded an Army: Begum Samru
Chandrica BaruaChandrica Barua
Staining Lips Red for Centuries: The Heart-Shaped Betel Leaf
Niyati DaveNiyati Dave
Seeing Yourself in the Divine: The Sacred Mirrors of Kerala
Diya ShahDiya Shah
How South Asian Art Reached the World’s Museums
Niyati DaveNiyati Dave
What One of the Earliest Mughal Paintings Says about Power and Ancestry
Diya Shah Diya Shah
A Fifth-Century Sanskrit Play, Illustrated in Paris
Aswathy GopinathAswathy Gopinath
‘Heads’ for the Queen: Rudolf Swoboda’s Indian Portraits
Chandrica BaruaChandrica Barua
Art Meets Science: An 18th-Century Album Recording the Natural World
Chandrica BaruaChandrica Barua
How Kodak Ads Captured the Changing Indian Family
Khushmi MehtaKhushmi Mehta
Many Forms, Many Lives: Lajja Gauri in Indian Art
Simran AgarwalSimran Agarwal
How a Victorian Magazine Paved the Way for Satirical Writing in India
Aswathy GopinathAswathy Gopinath
The Unicorn Seals: An Indus Valley Mystery
Rachna ShettyRachna Shetty
From ‘Joy-Giver’ to Antidote: Cannabis Consumption in India
Khushmi MehtaKhushmi Mehta
European Cherubs and Hindu Gods: A Portrait of Emperor Jahangir
Niyati Dave, Anirudh KanisettiNiyati Dave, Anirudh Kanisetti
What a Sixteenth-century Manuscript Says about Syncretism, Mysticism and Kingship in Bijapur
Rachna Shetty Rachna Shetty
Visions of an Unusual Utopia: Nek Chand’s Rock Garden
Arundhati ChauhanArundhati Chauhan
What Hero Stones Say about Death, Glory and Religion in Medieval India
Anirudh KanisettiAnirudh Kanisetti
Collecting Chinese Porcelains in the Persianate World
Anirudh KanisettiAnirudh Kanisetti
Caricaturing the West: Mewar’s ‘European Concoctions’
Chandrica BaruaChandrica Barua
Spiritual Transformations: Devī to Kami, India to Japan
Chandrica BaruaChandrica Barua
Distilling Rain in Three Acts: Paint, Dance, Bottle
Chandrica BaruaChandrica Barua
Amrita and Boris: A Romance in Images
Khushmi MehtaKhushmi Mehta
An Immortal Imaginary: The Legacy of Amar Chitra Katha
Chandrica BaruaChandrica Barua
Tarikh-i-Alfi: Creating the Image of an Ideal King
Anirudh KanisettiAnirudh Kanisetti
Collaboration amidst Contention: A Crossborder Art Exchange
Khushmi MehtaKhushmi Mehta
Adverts, Prints, Identity: The Unexpected Story of Tea Consumption in India
Aswathy GopinathAswathy Gopinath
Vishnu as Varaha: The Divine Boar From the Medieval to Modern
Anirudh KanisettiAnirudh Kanisetti
Worship, Beauty and Fragrance: The Many Lives of the Jasmine Flower
Chandrica BaruaChandrica Barua
Taxidermy, Beyond the Narrative of Trophy-Hunting
Rachna ShettyRachna Shetty
Performing Art, Displaying Culture: Artisan Exhibits in Colonial Exhibitions
Arundhati Chauhan, Chandrica BaruaArundhati Chauhan, Chandrica Barua
Tales of Power and Prowess: Hanuman Bearing a Mountaintop with Medicinal Herbs
Khushmi MehtaKhushmi Mehta
Lakshmi or Lakmé?: 19th Century Fashionable Orientalism
Chandrica BaruaChandrica Barua
Finding the Dangling Man Across History
Varun NayarVarun Nayar
Hunting the Tiger: A Symbol of Imperial Power
Khushmi Mehta, Chandrica BaruaKhushmi Mehta, Chandrica Barua
How Did Rajput Women Resist Patriarchal Portraiture?
Khushmi MehtaKhushmi Mehta
Spies, the City of Tawariq and the Hamzanama
Pooja SavansukhaPooja Savansukha
Kundan: Its History, Patronage and Making
Shrey MauryaShrey Maurya
The Peculiar Phenomenon of the Ajanta Cave Paintings
Shrey MauryaShrey Maurya
Street-theatre as a Form of Protest: Safdar Hashmi and JANAM
Khushmi MehtaKhushmi Mehta
The Waq-Waq Tree and How it Fuelled the Mughal Imagination
Pooja SavansukhaPooja Savansukha
Parodying the Dubious Morality of the Bengali Middle-Class
Shivani KasumraShivani Kasumra
Quilting as a Form of Assimilation: Siddi Quilts and Quilt-makers
Shrey MauryaShrey Maurya
Is Renaldi’s Muslim Lady Reclining a Subject to Voyeurism?
Pooja SavansukhaPooja Savansukha
What’s an Ideal Response to Falling in Love?
Khushmi MehtaKhushmi Mehta
Painting or a Diagram?: Looking at the Ayurvedic Man
Shivani KasumraShivani Kasumra
Tracing Early Globalisation Through the Pineapple
Anirudh KanisettiAnirudh Kanisetti
How Talismanic Shirts Combined War and Literature
Shivani KasumraShivani Kasumra
Karma, Rebirth and Naraka According to Jain Cosmology
Shrey MauryaShrey Maurya
What Makes a Tortoise Representative of the Earth in Bhagavata Purana?
Chandrica BaruaChandrica Barua
The Orientalisation of Victoria Gouramma
Chandrica BaruaChandrica Barua
Karaikkal Ammaiyar: The Shaiva Poet-Saint
Shrey MauryaShrey Maurya
Traversing Linear Perspective: Awadh through Faizallah’s Eyes
Arundhati ChauhanArundhati Chauhan
How did an Indian Game on Cosmic Philosophy Transfix Victorian England?
Arundhati ChauhanArundhati Chauhan
The Emperor and his Wine Cups
Shrey MauryaShrey Maurya
The Dutch East India Company’s “Imitation” of the Indian Patola
Pooja SavansukhaPooja Savansukha
What Does the Legacy of Malik Ambar Tell us About the African-origin Diaspora in India?
Pooja SavansukhaPooja Savansukha
What Rembrandt Learned from Mughal Miniatures
Shrey MauryaShrey Maurya
Otherworldly Labyrinths: The Purposes Forged by Stepwells
Pooja SavansukhaPooja Savansukha
A Clandestine Meeting of Lovers: Chokha’s “Escapade at Night”
Shrey MauryaShrey Maurya
Jewels and Horses: How the Horsehead Hilts combined two royal interests of the Mughals
Shrey MauryaShrey Maurya
From Monasteries to Community Theatre
Shrey MauryaShrey Maurya
How Taj Mahal Inspired Dilras Banu Begum’s Tomb
Pooja SavansukhaPooja Savansukha
A Zoophyte Fantasy?
Pooja SavansukhaPooja Savansukha
Does “Krishna’s Longing for Radha” Echo the Lyricism of Jayadeva’s Gita Govinda?
Pooja SavansukhaPooja Savansukha
Offering Empathy: The Abhaya Mudra
Shrey MauryaShrey Maurya
Of Shiva or Ravana?: The Origins of Rudra Veena
Shrey MauryaShrey Maurya
Murder and Art: The Kalighat Paintings of the Tarakeshwar Murder Trial
Pallavi SuranaPallavi Surana
Mapping the History of Ladakh’s Looms Through Murals
Shrey MauryaShrey Maurya
What Can the Construction of Gardens Reveal to us About Imperial Motives?
Pooja SavansukhaPooja Savansukha

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