The Age of the Satavahanas: Numismatics, Art and History in Peninsular India c.200 BC - 200 AD
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27 Sep
2024
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Indian Aesthetics
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Shailendra Bhandare
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Image: Coin of Gautamiputra_Sri_Yajna_Satakarni. From the CoinIndia website
The Satavahanas emerged as the first indigenous imperial dynasty of the Deccan in c.2 nd century BC and ruled a vast tract of Peninsular India for nearly 400 years. These centuries marked several watersheds – firstly in matters of state formation and local polity, secondly in terms of trade, urbanisation, political control, religious movements and social mobility and lastly, in the impact on monumental and archaeological antiquities. This seminar is divided into two lectures – the first will deal with understanding how Satavahana coinage helps us to underpin our understandings of these processes and the second will bring forth the role of Satavahana coins in studying and critically appreciating the art of this period.
Free In-Person Lecture with Live Streaming on ZOOM
P.S: The Zoom link to join the lecture will be shared 24 hours prior to the talk.
Duration -
September 27, 2024
Timing: Tea: 6:00 PM | Lecture: 6:30 - 8:30 PM IST
Registrations Closed
Shailendra Bhandare
Shailendra Bhandare is Assistant Keeper, South Asian and Far-eastern Numismatics and Paper Money Collections, a Fellow of St Cross College and a member of Faculty of Oriental Studies. He started his career as a Numismatist with a visiting fellowship at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge. He was then appointed as a post-doctoral fellow of the Society for South Asian Studies, and worked as a curator in the British Museum on the coins of Later Mughals and the Indian Princely States. He was appointed as curator of coins in the Ashmolean Museum in 2002.
He was born and brought up in Mumbai, India where he received his first degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences. He holds a Masters degree in History and a Doctorate in Ancient Indian Culture awarded by the University of Mumbai. His latest publications are:
‘Ruling the Waves: the Maritime World and Networks of the Kadambas of Goa’ – in CSMVS Research Journal, Centenary issue, ed. Saryu Doshi, CSMVS, Mumbai, 2023
‘Gold coins of the Hindu Shahi ruler Bhimadeva’ – Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society, 255, Spring 2024