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About the Editors

Parul Dave Mukherji

Parul Dave Mukherji

Parul is Dean of School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Earlier, she taught at the Department of Art History and Aesthetics, Faculty of Fine Arts, MS University, Baroda. She has lectured in India, Europe, and Japan and has been elected as the Delegate-at-Large representing India on the Executive Council of the International Association of Aesthetics. Her publications include Towards A New Art History: Studies in Indian Art (co-edited, 2003), Rethinking Modernity (co-edited, 2005), Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration and Convergence (2009).

Naman P. Ahuja

Naman is an art historian and curator and is
Associate Professor Naman P. Ahuja in the field of visual studies at J.N.U., where his research and graduate teaching focus on Indian iconography, ancient and medieval Indian sculpture, temple architecture and Sultanate period painting. Some of his publications include: Divine Presence: The Arts of India and the Himalayas (translated into Catalan and Spanish, Five continents editions, Milan, 2003), "Changing Gods, Enduring Rituals: Observations on Early Indian Religion as seen through Terracotta Imagery c. 200 bc-ad 200" in South Asian Archaeology, Paris, 2001; The Making of the Modern Indian Artist-Craftsman: Devi Prasad (Routledge, 2011 ); and The Body Indian Art and Thought (translated into French and Dutch, Ludion, 2013) his latest work, accompanies a major exhibition with the same title in Brussels for Europalia.

Kavita Singh

Kavita Singh

Kavita is Faculty at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She trained as an art historian at MS University of Baroda and at Punjab University, Chandigarh. She has had a research fellowship at the Victoria and Albert Museum, a curatorial internship at the Asia Society, New York, and has been guest curator at the San Diego Museum of Art, California. She was also Research Editor at Marg, one of the major art journals in India. She has written on Indian classical and folk painting in publications such as Marg and Orientations; her current work is on the history and politics of the museum in India. Publications in this area include the collection No Touching, No Spitting, No Praying: Modalities of the Museum in India (co-edited, forthcoming), "Repatriation without Patria: Repatriating for Tibet," Journal of Material Culture (2010), "The Temple’s Eternal Return: Swami Narayan Akshardham Complex in Delhi," Artibus Asiae (2010), and "The Universal Museum: View from Below," in Witnesses to History: A Compendium of Documents and Writings on the Return of Cultural Objects (2009).