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	'''Naman P. Ahuja''' (born 1974) is an [[art historian]] and curator based in [[New Delhi]]. He is [[Professor]] of Indian Art and [[Architecture]] at [[Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi\|Jawaharlal Nehru University]], New Delhi where his [[research]] and graduate teaching focus on [[Indian iconography]] and [[sculpture]], [[temple]] architecture and [[Sultanate]]-period painting. He is also the Editor of Marg, India’s leading quarterly magazine and journal on the arts, published from Mumbai. His studies on privately owned objects—terracottas, ivories and small finds—have drawn attention to a wide range of ritual cultures and transcultural exchanges at an everyday, quotidian level. He has curated several exhibitions, most notably ''The Body in Indian Art and Thought'', and published books, including ''The Making of the Modern Indian Artist Craftsman: Devi Prasad.''		'''Naman P. Ahuja''' (born 1974) is an [[art historian]] and curator based in [[New Delhi]]. He is [[Professor]] of [[Indian]] Art and [[Architecture]] at [[Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi\|Jawaharlal Nehru University]], New Delhi where his [[research]] and graduate teaching focus on [[Indian iconography]] and [[sculpture]], [[temple]] architecture and [[Sultanate]]-period painting. He is also the Editor of Marg, India’s leading quarterly magazine and journal on the arts, published from Mumbai. His studies on privately owned objects—terracottas, ivories and small finds—have drawn attention to a wide range of ritual cultures and transcultural exchanges at an everyday, quotidian level. He has curated several exhibitions, most notably ''The Body in Indian Art and Thought'', and published books, including ''The Making of the Modern Indian Artist Craftsman: Devi Prasad.''

	==Early life==		==Early life==

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	*''The Body in Indian Art and Thought''. Belgium: Ludion, 2013 in English, French and Dutch.<ref>{{cite web\| title=Author \|publisher=Sage\| url = http://www.sagepub.com/authorDetails.nav?contribId=668577\|date=\| accessdate = 2014-04-12}}</ref>		*''The Body in Indian Art and Thought''. Belgium: Ludion, 2013 in English, French and Dutch.<ref>{{cite web\| title=Author \|publisher=Sage\| url = http://www.sagepub.com/authorDetails.nav?contribId=668577\|date=\| accessdate = 2014-04-12}}</ref>
	*Exhibition Catalogue: Rupa-Pratirupa: ''The Body in Indian Art''. New Delhi: National Museum, 2014.		*Exhibition Catalogue: Rupa-Pratirupa: ''The Body in Indian Art''. New Delhi: National Museum, 2014.
	*~~"Indian~~ Art and Archaeology, the ~~Collection of~~ the Ashmolean Museum, ~~Oxford", Forthcoming~~.		*''Art and Archaeology of Ancient India: Earliest Times to the Sixth Century.'' Orxford: the Ashmolean Museum, 2018.

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'''Naman P. Ahuja''' (born 1974) is an [[art historian]] and curator based in [[New Delhi]]. He is [[Professor]] of Indian Art and [[Architecture]] at [[Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi|Jawaharlal Nehru University]], New Delhi where his [[research]] and graduate teaching focus on [[Indian iconography]] and [[sculpture]], [[temple]] architecture and [[Sultanate]]-period painting. He is also the Editor of Marg, India’s leading quarterly magazine and journal on the arts, published from Mumbai. His studies on privately owned objects—terracottas, ivories and small finds—have drawn attention to a wide range of ritual cultures and transcultural exchanges at an everyday, quotidian level. He has curated several exhibitions, most notably ''The Body in Indian Art and Thought'', and published books, including ''The Making of the Modern Indian Artist Craftsman: Devi Prasad.''

==Early life==
Professor Ahuja received his Ph.D. in Art and Archaeology from the School of Oriental and African Studies, at the University of London in 2001. His thesis was titled ‘Early Indian Moulded Terracotta: The Emergence of an Iconography and Variations in Style, Second Century BC to First Century AD’. A specific research contribution was his work on votive figurines and other imagery from the post-Mauryan period which brought to light a pantheon of Indian gods and goddesses that were irrevocably transformed after AD 200.<ref name="jnu.ac">{{cite news|url=http://www.jnu.ac.in/FacultyStaff/ShowProfile.asp?SendUserName=nahuja|title=Faculty Profile|accessdate=12 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140327091309/http://www.jnu.ac.in/FacultyStaff/ShowProfile.asp?SendUserName=nahuja|archive-date=27 March 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Career==

===As Professor===
Professor Ahuja has been tutor of the SOAS/Christie’s Asian Arts Course, the SOAS M.A. course in Religious, Fine and Decorative Arts of South Asia, and the British Museum’s Diploma in Asian Art. He has held Visiting Professorships and Fellowships at the University of [[Zurich]], the Ashmolean Museum at the [[University of Oxford]], the [[Kunsthistorisches Institut]] in [[Florence]], the [[University of Alberta]] in [[Edmonton]] and [[Nehru Memorial Museum & Library|Nehru Memorial Museum and Library]], New Delhi. Currently he teaches at [[Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi|Jawaharlal Nehru University]], [[New Delhi]]. His research and graduate teaching covers a diverse range of subjects including periods of artistic/visual exchange in pre-modern societies like ancient Gandhara, ancient temple statuary and iconography and the manuscripts painted in the Sultanate period in India.

===Curator===
As fellow of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, he authored a comprehensive catalogue of their collections of ancient Indian statuary and archaeological material. He has also held a curatorial position at the [[British Museum]] apart from curating several independent exhibitions in [[India]] and abroad on themes ranging from ancient to contemporary art. His research has led to several publications on ancient Indian art and religion, including ‘Changing Gods, Enduring Rituals: Observations on Early Indian Religion as seen through Terracotta Imagery c. 200 BC- AD 200.’ <ref>{{cite web| title = Naman P. Ahuja|publisher=Academia.edu| url = https://jnu.academia.edu/NamanAhuja}}</ref> His book, The Making of the Modern Indian Artist-Craftsman: Devi Prasad (Routledge, 2011) provided a case-study of the impact of the Arts and Crafts Movement on India. Most recently, he curated the exhibition ‘The Body in Indian Art and Thought’ which was held at [[Palais des Beaux Arts]] in [[Brussels]] and [[National Museum, New Delhi]]<ref name="khi.fi">{{cite news|url=http://www.khi.fi.it/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/veranstaltungen/v|title=F|accessdate=13 April 2014}}{{Dead link|date=May 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The catalogue for the exhibition became The Body in Indian Art and Thought (Ludion, Antwerp, 2013, also in French and Dutch), exploring a variety of fundamental approaches to the aesthetics of anthropomorphic representation in India and the larger ideas that drive people to make images. William Dalrymple, in an article on the exhibition in ''The Guardian'', claimed that ‘it is unlikely that a show like this will be put on again in our lifetime.’ <ref>{{cite web| title = Why The Body in Indian Art and Thought exhibition is unique|newspaper=The Guardian| url = https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/dec/19/william-dalrymple-body-indian-art-exhibition-brussels|date=19 December 2012| accessdate = 2015-07-02}}</ref>

===Views===
On 18 March 2012 at the convention "Collecting Ancient Art in the 21st Century", Naman said that in many countries modern development proved as serious a threat to archaeological sites as looting. It was imperative for collectors to engage with the views of archaeologists and challenging collector groups to find ways to help source countries stop looting.<ref>{{cite web| title = At Asia Society, Antiquities Collectors Describe "Climate of Fear"| publisher = Chasing Aphrodite| url = http://www.chasingaphrodite.com/2012/02/23/at-asian-society-antiquiti| date = 23 March 2012| accessdate = 2014-04-12}}{{dead link|date=February 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> He is also vocal about the role of public officials in national cultural institutions.<ref>{{cite web| title = Who Appoints the Keeper of Memories|publisher=The Hindu| url = http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/who-appoints-the-keeper-of-memories/article7232197.ece|date=22 May 2015| accessdate = 2015-07-02}}</ref> Such an idea of personal and public roles has also seen him strongly advocate a revision in the Antiquities law.<ref>{{cite web| title = Why is Liberalised India smuggling its heritage abroad?|publisher=The Hindu| url = http://www.thehindu.com/arts/why-is-liberalised-india-smuggling-its-heritage-abroad/article3666911.ece|date=22 July 2012| accessdate = 2015-07-02}}</ref>

===Publications===

*''The Making of the Modern Indian Artist Craftsman: Devi Prasad''. Delhi: Routledge, 2011.
*''Changing Gods, Enduring Rituals: Observations on Early Indian Religion as seen through Terracotta Imagery c. 200 BC - 200 AD'' in "South Asian Archaeology", Paris, 2001.
*''Divine Presence, The Arts of India and the Himalayas''. Milan: Five Continents Editions, 2003 in English, Catalan and Spanish.
*''InFlux'' ed. with Parul Dave Mukherji and Kavita Singh. New Delhi: Sage, 2012.
*''The Body in Indian Art and Thought''. Belgium: Ludion, 2013 in English, French and Dutch.<ref>{{cite web| title=Author |publisher=Sage| url = http://www.sagepub.com/authorDetails.nav?contribId=668577|date=| accessdate = 2014-04-12}}</ref>
*Exhibition Catalogue: Rupa-Pratirupa: ''The Body in Indian Art''. New Delhi: National Museum, 2014.
*"Indian Art and Archaeology, the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford", Forthcoming.

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