Dr Naman P. Ahuja is Professor of Art History at JNU and the General Editor of Marg, India’s oldest surviving publishing house dedicated to art and culture. He specialises in the historic foundations of the aesthetic milieu of South Asia as it came to be formed between 300 BC and AD 600. His work - both scholarly as well as for the wider public - has been variously translated into Hindi, Marathi, French, Spanish and Dutch and has deepened understanding of South Asia’s art from the perspectives of iconography and transculturalism, archaeology and religion, the historiography of visual culture and aesthetics.