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.

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January 23, 2020

Timing: 6:30 PM

Registrations Closed

Shailendra Bhandare

Shailendra Bhandare

Shailendra (Shailen) Bhandare is a numismatist, museum curator and historian. He has worked at some of World's leading museums like the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; The British Museum, London and currently, the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. He was born and brought up in Mumbai where he received his first degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences. He holds a Master’s degree in History and a Doctorate in Ancient Indian Culture awarded by the University of Mumbai.
Shailen's research contributions extensively span time and space, with the most recent being on the discovery of Indian iconic sculpture and a Sanskrit inscription in Egypt and materialities of exchange in the Indian Ocean World. His most recent edited volume was “Odyssey of the Rupee”, published to mark a landmark exhibition celebrating 75th anniversary of independent India’s rupee coinage, curated by Shailen and held at Sarmaya Foundation, Mumbai.