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Suresh Kumar

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Historian of ancient Afro-Eurasia | MSt (Oxon) PhD (Lond) | Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore | instagram.com/vicitracitta 📷's (©) are mostly mine.

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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
The Society for Ethnobotany has honoured my first book, The Tropical Turn, with the Mary W. Klinger Book Award—so grateful for yet another book prize! ethnobotany.org/home/awards/...
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The Society for Ethnobotany
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
My co-authored book in Nature's top 5 science picks! Quite appropriate, since the nature spirits of the Indian subcontinent—and their integration and reformulation by local religious traditions—are central to the book. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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What puzzles people, past and present: Books in brief
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
A hot pink wall featuring my co-authored book, Ancient India: Living Traditions, at the British Museum's special exhibition store: www.britishmuseumshoponline.org/ancient-indi...
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Dr Jennifer Howes @jhowesuk.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
“Ancient India : Living Traditions” opens tomorrow at the British Museum! Here’s the fab review in this morning’s Times. Congrats Sushma Jansari and @vicitracitta.bsky.social !!! Ancient India: Living Traditions review — gods and rituals come to life www.thetimes.com/article/88d8...
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Ancient India: Living Traditions review — gods and rituals come to life
The British Museum’s atmospheric show looks at the devotional art of the region’s main religious traditions
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Your chance to stare down a god: inside the British Museum’s mesmerising look at Indian religions
A show full of deities, snakes and shrines puts three ancient faiths in the spotlight. Our writer seeks out its inspiration in the bustling metropolis of Mumbai
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
London Charterhouse
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Chapter preview of "Ancient India: Living Traditions," a book I co-authored with Sushma Jansari, the Tabor Foundation Curator of South Asia at the British Museum. The book accompanies a major exhibition of the same title at the British Museum (22 May - 19 Oct 2025).
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
The Musée Guimet’s ongoing exhibition on Cambodian bronzes includes this stunning digital restoration of the 11th-century West Mebon Viṣṇu. Source: www.lemonde.fr/culture/arti...
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Reliefs from the Terrace of the Leper King, Angkor, early to mid-13th century
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Much more on this in the book I co-authored with Sushma Jansari (British Museum) for this exhibition: www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/04/30/i...
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In a new exhibition, the British Museum traces the shared roots of three ancient Indian religions
Devotional art reveals how Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism have more in common than is widely believed
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Ta Som, Angkor, 1180s-90s
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Hoof-shaped Attic red-figure cup with a herding scene, c. 470-460 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Paintings from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale, Italy, c. 50-40 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Temple door socket from Marad with an Akkadian inscription of Narām-Sîn (late 23rd century BCE) documenting his battles and his son Lipit-ilī's construction of a temple for the tutelary deity of Marad, New York Public Library
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Look what arrived! "Ancient India: Living Traditions," a book I co-authored with Sushma Jansari is now available for purchase at the British Museum's shops (wider release on 22/5). The book accompanies a major exhibition of the same title at the British Museum (22/5-12/10).
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Lapis lazuli seal showing a worshipper before two altars with divine symbols, c. 626-539 BCE, Babylonia, Morgan Library, New York
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Steatite seal showing a deity striding over a composite creature and taking aim at a lion-griffin, c. 1000-700 BCE, Mesopotamia, Morgan Library, New York
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Carnelian seal depicting a winged hero/ deity contesting with a lion, c. 800-650 BCE, Mesopotamia, Morgan Library, New York. The seal is inscribed with a prayer to the god Nabû on behalf of its owner Nabû-nādin-šumi.
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Hematite seal with suppliant deities and scorpions before a winged goddess with weapons, c. 1720-1650 BCE, Syria, Morgan Library, New York
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Egypt at the Brooklyn Museum: Old Kingdom
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Apkallū from Aššur-nāṣir-apli II's (883-859 BCE) palace at Kalḫu, Brooklyn Museum
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Selections from 'Recasting the Past: The Art of Chinese Bronzes, 1100–1900', Metropolitan Museum of Art, Feb-Sept 2025
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Fragment of a faience rhyton with a lion protome, 525-404 BCE, Achaemenid Egypt, Brooklyn Museum
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
The Egyptian official Ptahhotep wearing an Achaemenid Persian torque with ibex protomes, 525-404 BCE, Temple of Ptah, Memphis, Egypt, Brooklyn Museum
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Artist's model or trial piece depicting two Amarna-era rulers, most likely Akhenaten and Nefertiti, third quarter of the 14th century BCE, Amarna (Akhetaten), Egypt, Brooklyn Museum
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
A few more from the Brooklyn Museum's Indian art collection
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Jade vessel from Mughal India in the collection of the Qianlong Emperor (has a reign mark on its foot), mid-17th century, Brooklyn Museum
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Female figure, 1st century CE, Sirkap or Charsadda, Pakistan, Brooklyn Museum
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Avalokiteśvara, 10th century, Kurkihar, Bihar, India, Brooklyn Museum
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Harpokrates, 1st/ 2nd century CE, Gandhāra, Brooklyn Museum
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Tārā, 9th century, Bihar, India, Brooklyn Museum
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Śivaliṅga flanked by Brahmā and Viṣṇu, early 8th century, Kashmir, Brooklyn Museum
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Durgā, 8th century, Kannauj area, Uttar Pradesh (left); 10th century, Madhya Pradesh (right), Brooklyn Museum
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Mathuran art of the first two centuries of the Common Era at the Brooklyn Museum
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Gupta period (4th/5th century) art at the Brooklyn Museum
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Himalayan art at the Newark Museum (sculpture):
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Himalayan art at the Newark Museum (painting):
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Ratnasambhava, 12th/early 13th century, Tangut (Xixia) kingdom, Newark Museum of Art
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Dharmacakra, 7th/8th century CE, probably from Si Thep, Phetchabun province, Thailand, Newark Museum of Art
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Architectural fragment from a doorway featuring Gaṇeśa, 8th century CE, central India, Newark Museum of Art
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
South India at the Newark Museum of Art
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
We are beyond excited to share the cover of ‘Ancient India: Living Traditions’, a book co-authored by Sushma Jansari and myself. The book accompanies an exhibition of the same name, curated by Sushma Jansari at the British Museum (22/5/25-19/10/25).
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New Books Network @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Listen to our interview with Sureshkumar Muthukumaran about his award-winning book "The Tropical Turn: Agricultural Innovation in the Ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean" (UC Press, 2023) @vicitracitta.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I'll be speaking at NYU's Ranieri Colloquium on Ancient Studies next Friday (4 April). The conference theme is 'Reimagining Ancient Worlds: New Stories of the Distant Past'. Register here: as.nyu.edu/departments/...
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
We are beyond excited to share the cover of ‘Ancient India: Living Traditions’, a book co-authored by Sushma Jansari and myself. The book accompanies an exhibition of the same name, curated by Sushma Jansari at the British Museum (22/5/25-19/10/25).
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
To coincide with the exhibition, a vibrantly illustrated catalogue, Ancient India: living traditions, written by Sushma Jansari and Sureshkumar Muthukumaran, will be published by the British Museum Press in May 2025. www.britishmuseum.org/about-us/pre...
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Announcing the 'Ancient India: living traditions' exhibition
Exploring the artistic and spiritual legacy of one of the world's most influential civilisations from a global, multi-faith perspective.
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Reaching back more than 2,000 years, this new exhibition explores the origins of Hindu, Jain and Buddhist sacred art in the ancient and powerful nature spirits of India, and the spread of this art beyond the subcontinent. www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/...
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Ancient India: living traditions
Discover the origins of Hindu, Jain and Buddhist sacred art in the nature spirits of ancient India – and how it lives on 2,000 years later.
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Buddhist goddesses, possibly forms of Prajñāpāramitā, on a stela, c. 1050-1200 CE, Banteay Meanchey province, northwestern Cambodia, Battambang Museum (see Chemburkar 2022)
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Lintel with an unidentified deity, 11th century, Battambang Province, Battambang Museum
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Nāga-enthroned Buddha, 11th century, Phnom Sampov, Battambang Province, Battambang Museum
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