Archishman Sarker

Archishman is an art historian and recently submitted his PhD at Jawaharlal Nehru University. His research is on the art and iconography of medieval scholastic Buddhist traditions of South Asia, while his interests extend to the historiography of South Asian arts between the early historic period and AD 1200, and its art institutions. His writings, which extend to broader timeframes and understanding of South Asia’s art from the perspectives of comparative religion, the historiography of visual culture, gender and aesthetics, iconography and transculturalism, have appeared in The Burlington Magazine, Religions of South Asia etc.