A talk by Susmita Basu Majumdar, Professor in the Department of Ancient Indian History and Culture, University of Calcutta.
Event moderated by Osmund Bopearachichi, Numata Visiting Professor of Central and South Asian Art, Archaeology, and Numismatics, UC Berkeley.
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Speaker Bio
Professor in the Department of Ancient Indian History and Culture, University of Calcutta, Susmita Basu Majumdar’s specializations are Epigraphy and Numismatics. She also is deeply interested in Cultural history, Religious history and History of Medicine and Surgery. She is also well conversant with ancient languages like Sanskrit and Prakrit.
Prof. Susmita Basu Majumdar has been the recipient of numerous prestigious fellowships and recognitions in the country and abroad. She has been involved in cataloguing coins in the British Museum, Allahabad University Museum and many more collections. She has conducted and framed courses on Epigraphy, Numismatics, Prakrit Language and Grammar in many prestigious institutions.
Her publications include Local Coins of Ancient India: Coins of Malhar (Anjaneri 2000 ), Essays on History of Medicine with Nayana Sharma Mukherjee Mumbai 2013), Kalighat Hoard: The First Gupta Coin Hoard from India (Kolkata 2014), Select Early Historic Inscriptions: Epigraphic Perspectives on the Ancient Past of Chhattisgarh with Shivakant Bajpai Raipur 2015 ), Barabar and Nagarjuni Hills: A Biography of Twin Sites (Patna 2016 ), The Mauryas in Karnataka (Kolkata 2016), Money and Money Matters in Pre Modern South Asia with S.K.Bose (New Delhi 2019), From Hindu Kush to Salt Range: Mauryan, Indo-Greek and Indo-Scythian Coin Hoards (Kolkata 2020), Mahasthan Record Revisited: Querying the Empire from a Regional Perspective (New Delhi 2023). She has published more than 50 articles in reputed journals and edited volumes.
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Event made possible with the support of the Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies
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Event is FREE and OPEN to the public.
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