Parul Pandya Dhar

Parul Pandya Dhar is Associate Professor in the Department of History, University of Delhi, and specializes in the history of ancient and early medieval Indian architecture and sculpture, with a further research interest in pre-modern Asian cultural interactions. Author of The Toraa in Indian and Southeast Asian Architecture (2010), she has also edited Indian Art History Changing Perspectives (2011) and Cultural Interface of India awith Asia: Religion Art and Architecture (2004, co-edited), besides contributing several research papers. She is an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow for advanced research in Indian art history. An alumnus of Kalakshetra-Chennai, she is an accomplished classical Indian dance-artiste and has performed extensively in India and abroad.