Rajesh Kumar Singh

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

MONOGRAPHS

Forthc. With Rai, Raghu. Buddhist Cave Temples of Ajanta.

Forthc. Select Stupa-Shrines from Ajanta, Bagh, Dhārāśiva, and Gandhāra Pālé.

2021 Early Hunnic Invasions and Abandonment of Buddhist Temples in India. = Ajanta Mahāpiṭaka I.4 (Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers). Hardcover, B&W, 6 x 9 in, pp. 110, pl. 1. ISBN 978-81-215-1353-1.

2020a. Khīṅgīla vs. Buddhist Caves: A Synchronised Chronology of the Early Alchon Hūṇs, Early Guptas, Vākāṭakas, Traikūṭakas, and Buddhist Caves (ca. 451-480 CE). = Ajanta Mahāpiṭaka I.2 (Baroda: Hari Sena Press). Hardcover, B&W, 6 x 9 in, pp. 114, plates 11, ISBN 978-8192510781.

2020b. Periodisation of Rock-cut Monuments of India. = Ajanta Mahāpiṭaka I.3 (Baroda: Hari Sena Press). Hardcover, B&W, 6 x 9 in, pp. 106, plates 11, ISBN 978-8192510798.

2019. Ajanta Paintings: A Compilation of 84 Abridged Narratives. 2nd ed. (Baroda: Hari Sena Press). Hardcover, colour, 6 x 9 in, pp. 172, ISBN: 978-8192510767.

2017. Ajanta Cave No. 1: Documented According to the Ajanta Corpus of Dieter Schlingloff = Photographic Compendium of Ajanta Narrative Paintings. Vol. 1 (Baroda: Hari Sena Press). Hardcover, 8.27 x 11.27 in, colour, pp. 218, ISBN: 978-8192510774.

2012. An Introduction to the Ajanta Caves: With Examples of Six Caves (Baroda: Hari Sena Press). Softcover, 6.14 x 9.21 in, colour, pp. 260, ISBN: 978-8192510705.

RESEARCH PAPERS

2021. ‘Circa 465 CE and the Stupa-Shrine of the Ajanta Cave 11.’ In: Myth, Image, Metaphor in the Cultures of Asia and Africa. Proceedings of the 6th All-Polish Conference of Oriental Studies, ed. by Marek M. Dziekan, Sylwia Filipowska, and Ewa Siemieniec-Gołaś (Warsaw: Elipsa), pp. 301–373.

2021. ‘Astronomy of the Ajanta Caves 26 and 19.’ In: Prof. Ratan Parimoo Felicitation Volume, ed. by Gauri Parimoo Krishnan, and Raghavendra Rao Kulkarni (Delhi: Agam Kala Prakashan), pp. 25–35.

2020. ‘The Earliest Two and a Half Shrine-Antechambers of India.’ Rocznik Orientalistyczny / The Yearbook of Oriental Studies LXXIII (1): 119–153.

2019. ‘Devil in the Details: Spink’s Imaginations, 1. Did the Aśmakas really destroy the front cells of Ajanta Cave 19?,’ Berliner Indologische Studien 24, 257–264.

2018. ‘Rock-cut architecture of western India, 1. Momentum 1. Origins of leṇa-cetiyagharas, ca. 120–300 CE,’ History Today, Journal of the Indian History & Culture Society, XIX, 216–231.

2016. ‘Ajanta: An Overview.’ In: Sahapedia.org, an Encyclopaedia of the Indian Arts, Culture, and Heritage. http://sahapedia.org/ajanta-caves Accessed on 2 May 2017.

2016. ‘The Ajiṇṭhā Caves, Part I: Aspects of Historical and Political Background.’ In: Sahapedia.org, an Encyclopaedia of Indian Arts, Culture, and Heritage (New Delhi: Sahapedia.org). Accessed on 1 May 2017. http://www.sahapedia.org/aji%E1%B9%87%E1%B9%ADh%C4%81-cavespart-i .

2016. ‘The Ajiṇṭhā Caves, Part II: Aspects of Anthropological and Sociological Background.’ In: Sahapedia.org, an Encyclopaedia of Indian Arts, Culture, and Heritage (New Delhi: Sahapedia.org). Accessed on 1 May 2017. http://www.sahapedia.org/aji%E1%B9%87%E1%B9%ADh%C4%81-cavespart-ii .

With Singh, M. 2014. ‘Ajanta.’ In: Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, 3rd ed. Ed. Helaine Selin. (Verlag Berlin Heidelberg: Springer).

2012a. ‘The Early Development of the Cave 26-Complex at Ajanta,’ South Asian Studies 28.1 (London: BASAS and Routledge), 37-68.

2012b. ‘Buddhabhadra’s Dedicatory Inscription at Ajanta: A Review.’ In: Pratnakirti: Recent Studies in Indian Epigraphy, History, Archaeology, and Art, Professor Shriniwas S. Ritti Felicitation volume. 2 vols. Ed. Shriniwas V. Padigar and Shivanand V. (Delhi: Agam Kala Prakashan), vol. 1, pp. 34–46.

2009. ‘Enumerating the Sailagrhas at Ajanta,’ Journal of the Asiatic Society of Mumbai 82, 122-26.

2009. ‘Ajanta Cave 8: Historiography and Fresh Look at the First Mahayana Sailagrha,’ Jnana-Pravah Research Journal (Varanasi) 12, 68 - 80

2008/2009. ‘Some Problems in Fixing the Date of Ajanta Caves.’ In: Kalā, the Journal of Indian Art History Congress 14, Ed. R. D. Choudhury (Guwahati and Delhi: Indian Art History Congress and Sharada Publishing House), pp. 69-85.

2005. ‘The Writings of Stella Kramrisch: A Review of Reviews,’ Lalit Kalā [journal] 30 (New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi), 41-54.

2003. ‘Role of Stella Kramrisch in Indian Art History,’ East & West 53.14 (Rome: Istituto italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente), 127-48.

DOCTORAL THESIS

2014. ‘Ajanta’s Antiquity: Sources and Problems.’ PhD thesis. Faculty of Fine Arts, M. S. University of Baroda.

VIDEOS

2016. ‘Built spaces: Ajanta Caves: In conversation with Rajesh Singh.’ [Video interview] Sahapedia.org. https://www.sahapedia.org/ajanta-caves-history-and-practices . Accessed on 6 May 2017.

2016. ‘Built spaces: Monika Zin in conversation with Rajesh Singh on Ajanta cave paintings.’ [Video interview] Sahapedia.org. https://www.sahapedia.org/ajanta-cave-paintings. Accessed on 6 May 2017.

2016. ‘Built Spaces: Dr. Rajesh Kumar Singh in Conversation with Padmashree M. K. Dhavalikar.’ [Video interview] Sahapedia.org. https://www.sahapedia.org/interview-mkdhavalikar. Accessed on 6 May 2017.

2016. ‘Built Spaces: Dr. Rajesh Kumar Singh in Conversation with Naomichi Yaguchi.’ [Video interview] Sahapedia.org. https://www.sahapedia.org/conversation-naomichi-yaguchi . Accessed on 6 May 2017.

2016. ‘Built Spaces: Ajanta and the Vakatakas: Rajesh Kumar Singh in Conversation with Hans Bakker.’ [Video interview] Sahapedia.org. https://www.sahapedia.org/interview-mkdhavalikar. Accessed on 6 May 2017.

BOOKS REVIEWS ON MY WORKS

2021. Willemen, Charles. Book review. ‘Rajesh Kumar Singh, Khiṅgila vs. Buddhist Caves: A Synchronised Chronology of the Early Alchon Huns, Early Guptas, Vākāṭakas, Traikūṭakas, and Buddhist Caves. Hari Sena Press, Baroda, 2020a.’ Indian International Journal of Buddhist Studies 21, pp. 173–174.

2021. Willemen, Charles. Book review. ‘Rajesh K. Singh, Periodisation of Rock-Cut Monuments of India (2020b). Hari Sena Press, Baroda, 2020b,’ Indian International Journal of Buddhist Studies 21, pp. 171–172.

In press. Spink, Walter M. ‘The View from the Sikhara: Rejoinder to Rajesh Kumar Singh's Article,’ Berliner Indologische Studien / Berlin Indological Studies 25.

In press. J., Manuel. ‘Book Review of Periodisation of Buddhist Rock-cut Monuments of India by Rajesh Kumar Singh (2020b),’ Berliner Indologische Studien / Berlin Indological Studies 25.

Visvas, Anamika. 2015. ‘Review of An Introduction to the Ajanta Caves by Rajesh K. Singh,’ Purātattva 43 (New Delhi: Indian Archaeological Society).

Bhalerao, Manjiri. 2017. ‘Review of An Introduction to the Ajanta Caves by Rajesh K. Singh,’ Journal of Asiatic Society of Mumbai 87.

Raghu, G. 2013 (2 June). ‘Spinkam-Singham,’ Mathrubhumi, Weekend Supplement. [Newspaper in Malayalam] Kochi.