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ISSN 0976 – 7266 
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The Goddess, Ellora (Photo - Archana Verma)

South Asian Arts aims to brings to its readers scholarly articles related to all aspects of art and cultural expressions of South Asia. Some of these articles are available in full access on this website.

Complete details of each issue of South Asian Arts, with abstracts and PDF files are available on this website. Do explore it to get an idea of what we have in store for those interested in South Asian Arts.

A complete list of articles in all its volumes published so far is given below. Please feel free to click on the links and explore them.

Archana Verma

Content for (2) January 2011 

Contesting Cultures or Negotiating Hybridity? Interrogating Brick Lane, The Namesake and I for India by Tasleem Shakur)

Artistic Activity in Nepal as World Peace - Artist Profile  (Full access online and PDF available)

Testimonials in Stone - Pallava Rock-Cut Shrines (Part I - Mahendra Style) by Saurabh Saxena (Full access online)

Continuity of Nari-Uttana-hasta-pada/  Aditi-uttanapada and Charkhopadaine:  An Ethno-Archaeological Study by Sachin Tiwary 

Lung-Ta Collaborative - Living Blessings of Lo by Maureen Drdak   (Full access online and PDF available)

Selected Hindu Temples of Bangladesh - Book Review by Archana Verma   Full access online

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Content for (1) October 2010

Kolshi In Bangladeshi Modern Art  by Lisa Banu

Brief Note on Tsogyal Shedrub Dargyeling Nunnery in Exile by M. N. Rajesh and Tsamchoe

Conserving Living Religious Heritage - Maintaining Continuity and Embracing Change by Ioannis Paolios (Full access online)

Story of India by Michael Wood - A Review by Archana Verma (Full access online)

Threat to Afghan Heritage by Archana Verma (Full access online)

A Bastion of South Asian Art and Culture in Philadelphia by Zoe Papademetriou (Full access online)

(1) July 2010 Issue

James Tod the Loyalist - The American Roots of an Indian Classic by John Mc Leod

Performing Pasts - A Review by Archana Verma (Full access online)

"World Art" and South Asia - A Dialogue on Some Problems and Perspectives by Daniel J. Rycroft and Archana Verma

Dambulla Cave Temple, Sri Lanka by Archana Verma (Full access online)

Decaying Paintingts at Rachol Seminary, Goa by Archana Verma Full access online)

Lajja Gauri Type Figures in the Indus Valley by Max le Martin (Full access online)

(1) April 2010 Issue

Islamic Art and Funerary Practices by Archana Verma and Mazhar Hussain

Religious and Cultural Interaction in Mughal India by Archana Verma (Full access online)

Parvati's Marriage in Mithila Folklore by Archana Verma

Religion and Erotics in Traditional India by Archana Verma

Method of an Architect - Book Review by Archana Verma (Full access online)

My Name is Khan - Film Review by Archana Verma

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About This Journal...

About this Journal

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This online journal aims to bring to its readers various aspects of the art forms of South Asia, their study, critical perspectives and contextual analysis. The articles are sought to be academic in nature and well-researched. All periods and forms of arts are covered in this journal.

Please note that this is an academic journal and not a community forum.

It is aimed to be a thrice-yearly journal. Its ISSN Number is

ISSN 0976 – 7266.

All content in this journal are copyrighted. Please ask for permission before reproducing any content in any form.

@Archana Verma, 14th of April 2010

Please feel free to offer your opinions, comments and discussions. The comments should be democratic and academic in nature.

Editorial Board

• Prof. John Mc Leod, Director, Asian Studies, University of Louiseville, Kentucky, USA.
• Prof. Adam Hardy, Cardiff University, UK.
• Dr. Daniel Rycroft, Assistant Professor, University of East Anglia, UK.
• Dr. Ibrahim Shah, Associate Professor and Chairperson, Department of Archaeology, Hazara University, Mansehra, Pakistan.
• Mr. Sanjeev Kumar, Vasanta College, Varanasi, India.
• Dr. Mazhar Hussain, Centre for Indian Languages, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
• Dr. Balkrishan Shivram, Associate Professor, History, Rampur College, Himachal Pradesh, India.
• Dr. Archana Verma, New Delhi, India.

About Archana Verma -

Having completed her PhD from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in Indian art history, Dr. Archana Verma has been a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, UK and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Simla. She has also taught Indian art history to the American university students who visit Delhi on a Study Abroad Programme. She has published a monograph on Buddhist art from the ancient monastery of Bagh in Madhya Pradesh from Archaeopress, Oxford, UK. Please see the Google Books page here.

She has  also completed a monograph on the narrative art of the Hindu temples called Reading Images, which is shortly going to be published.

Dr. Verma is currently engaged in completing a volume of collected papers on various dimensions of performative arts tradition of India.

Some of her other papers include - "Art and Architecture as Symbols of Change," in Indica, Vol. 34, "Territory as Woman, Woman as territory, Visual and Verbal Imageries in Peninsular India" in Indian Women Writing in English, " Heroic Discourse in Indian Art" in South Asian Iconography and Iconology, South Asian Studies, London, UK (Conference volume of the International conference of the European Association of South Asian Archaeologists, 2005).

Dr. Verma also makes and researches about the Mithila paintings, which belong to the folk genre from Eastern India.

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The views expressed in the articles in this journal are only of the writers and not of the editors involved in producing this journal. It is the responsibility of the authors to ensure that they send original content and give proper acknowledge and citations for the sources and images used in the papers. In case of a dispute arising in these matters, the authors will be responsible, not the editors of the journal.

Archana Verma

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