Indian Archaeology

 

Early Narratives on Ramayana

 

Illustrated lecture by Prof. Seema Bawa who has specialised in History of South Asian Art and Culture, Department of History, University of Delhi. She is currently working on Gupta and Post-Gupta Shivaism in Northern India, exploring the experience and manifestations through image-text study and the differential evolution of the Shaiva tirtha and pilgrimage networks

 

 

 

Chair: Dr. B.M. Pande

 

 

 

During the Gupta period, Ramayana becomes the focus of cultural production and dissemination, be it in the literary, oral or sculptural traditions. This reading of early Ramayana sculptural panels found within architectural settings and independent terracotta plaques attempt to examine the temporal and spatial contexts within which these were conceptualised