The In-Betweeners: Trade and Patronage in 1st Century Ad - The Case of Kuda-Mandad
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The In-Betweeners: Trade and Patronage in 1st Century Ad - The Case of Kuda-Mandad

  • 23 Jan
    2020

    Buddhist Aesthetics

    Shailendra Bhandare

The In-Betweeners: Trade and Patronage in 1st Century Ad - The Case of Kuda-Mandad

The rock cut Buddhist cave complex at Kuda (dist. Raigad, Maharashtra) epitomises what art historians have regraded as ‘minor’. While the caves lack great artistic feats and a grand plan, they no doubt are significant in many ways such as their coastal location and the epigraphic evidence they present. The lecture will bring forth important new evidence to contextualize this significance further. It will also problematize some long held notions about the chronology and the architecture of the Buddhist cave temples of the Deccan and provide new insights into questions which have been a part of the discourse on archaeology of trade and patronage on the Western Coast of India.

Duration -

January 23, 2020

Timing: 6:30 PM

Registrations Closed

Shailendra Bhandare

Shailendra Bhandare

Shailendra Bhandare is Assistant Keeper, South Asian and Far-eastern Numismatics and Paper Money Collections, a Fellow of St Cross College and a member of Faculty of Oriental Studies. He started his career as a Numismatist with a visiting fellowship at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge. He was then appointed as a post-doctoral fellow of the Society for South Asian Studies, and worked as a curator in the British Museum on the coins of Later Mughals and the Indian Princely States. He was appointed as curator of coins in the Ashmolean Museum in 2002.

He was born and brought up in Mumbai, India where he received his first degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences. He holds a Masters degree in History and a Doctorate in Ancient Indian Culture awarded by the University of Mumbai. His latest publications are:
‘Ruling the Waves: the Maritime World and Networks of the Kadambas of Goa’ – in CSMVS Research Journal, Centenary issue, ed. Saryu Doshi, CSMVS, Mumbai, 2023

‘Gold coins of the Hindu Shahi ruler Bhimadeva’ – Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society, 255, Spring 2024