Traders, Teachers, Travellers | Naman Ahuja and Sureshkumar Muthukumaran with William Dalrymple

Traders, Teachers, Travellers | Naman Ahuja and Sureshkumar Muthukumaran in conversation with William Dalrymple | Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 Series Jaipur Literature Festival 2024
What apparatus facilitated the transportation of Indian architecture, religion, and languages to Southeast Asia? Which centres in India contributed ideas to Anuradhapura, Angkor Wat, and Borobudur, leading to the creation of some of the world's greatest temples and monuments? Art historian Naman Ahuja's latest work, Phanigiri, offers a rich context for understanding the new discoveries of extraordinary ancient sculptures at this Buddhist archaeological site in Telangana. Ahuja also examines how Southern Indian sites were connected with Roman, Egyptian, Gandharan, and Southeast Asian centers. Sureshkumar Muthukumaran's work centers on interactions between peoples in ancient Eurasia, with a focus on examining long-distance connectivity.
Naman P. Ahuja is Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and the Editor of Marg. A specialist in the field of ancient Indian art, his writings have explored the history of aesthetics through shifts in iconography and trans culturalism in antiquity, the legacy of the Arts and Crafts Movement in the modern period and the changing narratives for Indian art in museums.
Sureshkumar Muthukumaran is the recipient of a Masters in Greek and Roman History from the University of Oxford and a PhD in History from University College London. He is currently a lecturer in history at the National University of Singapore. His research focuses on interactions between peoples in ancient Afro-Eurasia with an eye to examining long-distance connectivity.
William Dalrymple is the author of the Wolfson Prize-winning White Mughals, Duff Cooper Prize-winning The Last Mughal, and the Hemingway and Kapuscinski Prize-winning Return of a King. His book, The Anarchy, was shortlisted for the Duke of Wellington medal, the Tata Book of the Year, and the Historical Writers Association Award, and won the 2020 Arthur Ross Medal from the US Council on Foreign Relations. Dalrymple has held visiting lectureships at Princeton, Brown, and Oxford, where he is currently a Visiting Fellow at All Souls. He was presented with the President’s Medal by the British Academy and was named one of the world’s top 50 thinkers for 2020 by Prospect Magazine. He is a founder and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival.
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[@rajwarnakulasuriya5935]

I think these two have been reading too many books written by White people...by the way, please learn, Buddha's teachings is not a religion...you two need to read books and scripts written by Bharath historians, The British distorted the Bharath chronology and history....

[@nirvanabliss73]

Are you on drugs or something? Are you now going to recommend only Indian historians and maybe Nepalese physicists, Russian Chemists, Israeli biologists only etc. Whats the logic in rejecting non-Indian sources for historical writings?

[@mohitminshu]

maybe actually follow your own advice and read a book or two before passing expert comments on historians you obviously know nothing about...