Gerd J.R. Mevissen (Editor)
Gerd J.R. Mevissen, born 1953, studied Modern Architecture and Ancient Indian Art History at Berlin Universities.He worked from 1990 to 1995 as Lecturer of Indian Art History in the Institute of Indian Philology and Art History at the Free University Berlin, and from 2000 to 2002 as Assistant Curator at the Museum of Indian Art, Belin. He is editor of the journals Berliner Indologische Studien and Indo-Asiatische Zeitschrift, both published annually from Berlin, and has edited also a number of books and felicition volumes dealing with Indological subjects. He has published more than forty research papers on different aspects of Indian Art, Architecture and Iconography (Hindu, Buddhist, Jain).
Arundhati Banerji (Editor)
Dr. Arundhati Banerji now a Deputy Superintending Archaeologist, joined the Archaeological Survey of India, for Post-graduate training in Archaeology (1972-73). Ever since she takes active interest and participation in all the branches of archaeology. Thought her keenness in the field of Epigraphy and Numismatics of early period, made her to pursue further studies in archaeology, she studied numerous antiquities preserved in different Museums and Central Antiquities Collection of the Survey. Her long association with the Survey, enabled her to study the stylistic evolution of various art forms particularly the terracottas. She was awarded Ph.D. (1990) for her work Terracotta Art of Northern and Western India from c. 2000-e00 B.C. Besides many research papers, she has also contributed articles for “An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology (ed.) A. Ghosh. At present, she is assiduously working for a monograph Terracotta Art of India on which she has already contributed widely in many Research Journals. She has also traveled abroad in connection with the Festival of India, Paris.
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