Tribute to Professor B.N. Goswamy

Panelists: Dr. Sudha Gopalakrishnan, IIC-International Research Division; Prof. Naman P. Ahuja, School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Dr. Preeti Bahadur Ramaswami, Ashoka University; and Dr. Geeti Sen, art historian, author of several books on Indian art and formerly Chief Editor, IIC Publications Division

Closing Remarks: Dr. Ananya Vajpeyi, Fellow and Associate Professor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies 

Chair: Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director IIC

Professor B.N. Goswamy (15 August 1933 – 17 November 2023) was a world-renowned authority on Indian painting, whose writings had seminal influence on our understanding of art. His works included, The Mughals and Jogis of Jakhbar (co-author, 1967), ‘Pahari Painting: The Family as the Basis of Style’ (1968), A Place Apart: Painting in Kutch, 1720–1820 (co-author, 1983), Pahari Masters (co-author, 1992), the multi-volume Indian Costumes in the Calico Museum of Textiles (1993–), I See No Stranger: Early Sikh Art and Devotion (co-author, 2006), The Spirit of Indian Painting (2014), Oxford Readings in Indian Art (2018) and The Great Mysore Bhagavata (2019). He collaborated on curating such path-breaking exhibitions as ‘Essence of Indian Art’ (San Francisco, 1986), ‘Pahari Masters’ (Zürich, 1990), ‘Domains of Wonder’ (San Diego, 2005–06) and 'The Word is Sacred, Sacred is the Word' (Frankfurt, 2006). He was Professor Emeritus at Panjab University, and visiting professor at the universities of Heidelberg, Pennsylvania, California, Texas (Austin) and Zürich.