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Suresh Kumar

@vicitracitta.bsky.social
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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 · 17/05/2025
The exhibition opens next week. So excited! Our exhibition book is already on sale at the British Museum's stores ahead of its official publication date (22 May). www.britishmuseumshoponline.org/ancient-indi...
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Ancient India: living traditions
Take a deeper look into the history, art and faith of India with the Ancient India: living tradition book – the beautifully illustrated official hardback from the British Museum’s major exhibition.&nb...
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
www.timeout.com/london/thing...
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Ancient India: Living Traditions at the British Museum | British Museum | Things to do in London
A world-first is on its way to the British Museum in ‘Ancient India: Living Traditions’. The new exhibition is the first ever to consider early Indian sacred ar
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Gods arrive from India, myths grow Tinguely and meat gets sensual – the week in art
A blockbuster show of Hindu, Jain and Buddhist art, a revolutionary marriage and Helen Chadwick inside a washing machine – all in your weekly dispatch
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
www.apollo-magazine.com/ancient-indi...
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Ancient India: living traditions | Apollo Magazine
The British Museum presents artefacts of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism and explores how all three faiths changed over centuries
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
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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
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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
The official publication date is 22 May (when it becomes widely available through online retailers) but the book is already on sale at the British Museum's bookstores and available on the British Museum shop’s website: www.britishmuseumshoponline.org/ancient-indi...
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
The last chapter ("Afterlives") considers the modern phase of these ancient traditions and uses the United Kingdom and Singapore as case studies in religious pluralism.
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
The book also considers how religious ideas and images originating in the Indian subcontinent were localised and woven into the cultural fabric of Central Asia, China, Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia.
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
The first chapter explores the emergence of Indian religious traditions against the backdrop of local environments, emphasising the importance of nature in essential human experiences. The next three chapters are focused on Jainism, Buddhism and Hinduism.
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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
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Bronzes royaux d’Angkor, un art du divin
Mondialement célébré pour ses monuments de pierre, l’art khmer a aussi produit une importante statuaire de bronze dont la connaissance a fait l’objet d’avancées spectaculaires à la faveur de foui...
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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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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
Thank you! That’s right, it is mostly focused on the period between 200 BCE - 600 CE.
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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
Roman Period
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Ptolemaic Period
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Achaemenid Period
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Late Period
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
New Kingdom
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Middle Kingdom
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Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Egypt at the Brooklyn Museum: Old Kingdom
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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
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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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