Academics
This volume is a tribute to Professor Doris Meth Srinivasan's profound scholarship and seminal writings, to which colleagues from various countries have contributed. Their topics, often referencing Prof. Srinivasan's works, are presented from different angles of academic perspective and specialisation, namely, South Asian Art History, South Asian Architecture, Classical Indology (or Ancient Indian Philology), Archaeology, Numismatics, Cultural History, etc.\n\n\nThe book is prefaced with two in-depth forewords, by Professors Lokesh Chandra and Gerard Fussman. The former includes a discussion of the contents, while the latter details appreciation of Prof. Srinivasan's work and explores her subject matter and academic achievements. The honorand's complete bibliography is also provided. The chapters set out with studies of early historical periods (including pre- and protohistory). The largest section, "Investigating All Things Kushan", coincides with Prof. Srinivasan's major field of specialization, namely, Mathuran and Gandharan art. This rich terrain of cultural history and its vestiges will probably never cease to provide specialists with intriguing questions to be tackled and fresh insights to be distilled from the overall corpus of data that has come upon us. Following are the sections on Gupta-period and Medieval topics, specifically including Numismatics and Architecture. The thematic sections on female protagonists including goddesses, and "Telling Images", involving particularly painstaking case studies, conclude the volume. In terms of geography, the topics range from the Indo-Iranian region in the west to peninsular Southeast Asia in the east, with India forming the hub.
Corinna Wessels-Mevissen is an independent researcher affiliated with the Asian Art Museum, Berlin, Germany. She studied Indian Art History, Archaeology, and Sanskrit at the Christian-Albrechts-Universitat zu Kiel and at the Freie Universitat Berlin (M.A.; Ph.D.). She served as Guest Lecturer at the former Institute of Indian Philology and Art History, Freie Universitat Berlin (2001; 2008), and as Guest Curator (2003-04) and Curator (2006-07) at the former Museum of Indian Art (since 2006 part of the Asian Art Museum, Berlin). In 2009, she was appointed One-Year Fellow at the Morphomata International Center for Advanced Studies, University of Cologne. She has authored the monograph The Gods of the Directions in Ancient India (2001) as well as various research articles on ancient Indian archaeology and art, and made contributions to exhibition catalogues and encyclopaediae. Gerd J.R. Mevissen is an independent researcher affiliated with the Asian Art Museum, Berlin, Germany. He studied Architecture at the Technische Universitat Berlin (Dipl.-Ing. Arch.), and Indian Art History at the Freie Universitat Berlin (M.A.). He served as Lecturer at the former Institute of Indian Philology and Art History, Freie Universitat Berlin (1990-95), and as Curator at the former Museum of Indian Art, Berlin (2000-02). He is executive editor of the research journal Berliner Indologische Studien /Berlin Indological Studies (since 1995) and, formerly, of Indo-Asiatische Zeitschrifi (Berlin; 1997-2017). He has also edited several volumes of collected papers (since 1991), and has published numerous research articles on ancient Indian art and iconography (Hindu, Buddhist, Jain), often focussing on the systematic documentation of groups of minor deities, such as Navagrahas.
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