Archaeology at the margins of empire in premodern south India: Case studies from Karnataka

Archaeology at the margins of empire in premodern south India: Case studies from Karnataka

Speaker:  Dr. Uthara Suvrathan, Visiting Asst. Prof., Jyoti Dalal School of Liberal Arts, NMIMS, Mumbai

 

Chair: Prof. Himanshu Prabha Ray

 

This talk will focus on archaeological survey and cartographic analysis to discuss how the understanding of past landscapes provides interesting insights into pre-modern political and religious organization. The speaker will use two case studies, the results of an archaeological survey she has been conducting in Karnataka over the last several years (the Banavasi-Gudnapura Regional Survey Project) and second, an ongoing project examining historical and cartographic information contained in documents from the colonial period