Parul Pandya Dhar

Parul Pandya Dhar is a Professor in the Department of History, University of Delhi. Her work engages with the history of Indian art and architecture, art historiography, and connected cultural histories of South and Southeast Asia. She has authored The Torana in Indian and Southeast Asian Architecture (2010); edited The Multivalence of an Epic: Retelling the Ramayana in South India and Southeast Asia (2021), and Indian Art History: Changing Perspectives (2011); and co-edited Temple...See more

Parul Pandya Dhar is a Professor in the Department of History, University of Delhi. Her work engages with the history of Indian art and architecture, art historiography, and connected cultural histories of South and Southeast Asia. She has authored The Torana in Indian and Southeast Asian Architecture (2010); edited The Multivalence of an Epic: Retelling the Ramayana in South India and Southeast Asia (2021), and Indian Art History: Changing Perspectives (2011); and co-edited Temple Architecture and Imagery of South and Southeast Asia (2016), Asian Encounters: Exploring Connected Histories (2014), and Cultural Interface of India with Asia (2004). She has been awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Germany (2007-2008), the CAA-Getty International Travel Award, USA (2012 and 2018), and the Nehru Trust Research Grant, UK (2004). She is currently writing on artists and artistic practices in ancient and early medieval Deccan, and issues relating to art and mobility across the Indian Ocean. See less