Curator: Prof. Himanshu Prabha Ray

Reading Monuments, Reading Buddhist Monuments

Illustrated lecture by Dr. Shashank Shekhar Sinha, independent researcher who has been working as Publishing Director, Routledge (South Asia) since 2012. He is the author of Casting the Buddha: A Monumental History of Buddhism in India (Pan Macmillan 2021), Delhi, Agra, Fatehpur Sikri: Monuments, Cities and Connected Histories (Pan Macmillan 2021), and co-edited, Gender in Modern India: History, Culture, Marginality (Oxford University Press, 2024)

Chair: Ms Junhi Han, Cheif of Culture, UNESCO Office, New Delhi

Why are monuments so important in history and the reception of the discipline in the public domain. Do we study or understand them adequately? The will highlight how a more inclusive study of monuments (and related artefacts) could lead to a more nuanced understanding of history while also making the discipline more interesting for the non-history public.