CONTRIBUTORS

  

Indian Art : Forms, Concerns and Development in Historical Perspective
Volume VI Part 3

BETTINA BAUMER is an Austrian Indologist. She is Research Director of Alice Boner Foundation, Varanasi. Her main areas of interest and research are temple architecture of Orissa, Kashmir Saivism, agama, and Indian aesthetics. Her present address is B 1 / 159, Assi Ghat, Varanasi. 

R. CHAMPAKALAKSHMI has taught history at Jawaharlal Nehru University. She has researched among many on iconography of medieval Tamilnadu. Her Present Address is 37, Car Street, Saidapet, Chennai. 

D.P. Chattopadhyaya, a former Professor of Philosophy, is currently Director, Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy and Culture, New Delhi. His areas of interest are history of science, philosophy,  art and culture in addition to philosophy. His present address is 25 Park Mansion, 57/A Park Street, Calcutta. 

Late Kalyan Kumar Dasgupta was Rani Bagisvari Professor of Indian Art in Calcutta University and vice-chancellor of Kalyani University. His areas of interest were tribal history of ancient India and also wood carving in eastern India. He stayed at Mainak Flat No. 205, P 17/B Asutosh Choudhury Avenue, Calcutta. 

DEVANGANA DESAI is an art historian and General Editor of the World Heritage Sites (UNESCO) Series. She has extensively worked on various aspects of ancient Indian art and architecture; including terracottas, Mother-goddess, temple art and architecture, and Hindu and Buddhist sculptures. Her present address is Shanti, 1/30, 19 Pedder Road, Mumbai. 

B.N. GOSWAMY is a Professor Emiritus of art history in the Department of Fine Arts, Panjab University, Chandigarh. He is also Vice Chairman of the Sarabhai Foundation, Ahmedabad. He has published extensively in two areas: history of Indian painting and Persian documents consisting of landgrants given by the Mughals and Sikhs. 

JYOTINDRA JAIN is a scholar of Indian folk and tribal art. Presently, he is the Senior Director of Crafts Museum at Pragati Maidan, Bhairon Road, New Delhi. 

R.N. MISRA is a Professor and at present Head, School of Studies in Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology, Jiwaji University, Gwalior. Some of his areas of research are Yaksa cult, Dahala and Daksina Kosala, etc., especially on iconography. 

R. NAGASWAMI was Director of Archaeology, Government of Tamilnadu. Currently, he is National Consultant, Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts. He has studied on folk arts and music, temple architectur,numismatics and epigraphy of Taminadu. His present address is 22, 22nd Cross Street, Besant Nagar, Chennai. 

BALAN NAMBIAR is a painter, sculpture, enamellist, photographer and research scholar on the rural arts of Kerala. His present address is 1 Tenth Cross Road, Jayamahal Extension, Bangalore. 

LOLITA NEHRU is professor and Head of the Department of History of Art, National Museum Institute , New Delhi. Her areas of specialization are early Indian art and art of western Central Asia from the Achaemenian to Kusana period. 

DINANATH PATHY is currently Jawaharlal Nehru Fellow, Nehru Memorial Fund. He has researched on crafts and paintings of rural Orissa. His present address is E 49 / 1386, Bhimtangi Phase II, Bhubaneswar. 

S. SETTAR is a professor of history and archaeology. He has extensively published and edited a number of volumes on archaeology and history of religion, philosophy and art in India. Recently he retired as the Chairman of Indian Council of Historical Research. His address is Manasollasa, Malamaddi, Cr. 7, Dharwad.

GULAMMOHAMMAD SHEIKH is a painter and writer. He has taught art, history and painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda. His present address is Niharika, near University Health Center, Pratapgunj, Vadodara. 

KAVITA SINGH is an art historian who studied narrative paintings from Bengali  Pata and Rajasthani phad painting and story telling tradition. Her current interests of research include nineteenth century painting in Punjab and eighteenth century painting in Delhi. Her present address is B 29 / B, Kailash Colony, New Delhi.

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