Salila Kulshreshtha

Dr Salila Kulshreshtha secured her PhD in History from Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her doctoral research focuses on tracing how the spatial relocation of sacred sculptures brings about a change in their identity and ritual purpose. She has worked on issues of urban heritage and heritage education with INTACH and with the Dr Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum, Mumbai. She has taught Art history, History and Humanities in Mumbai at Rizvi College of Architecture and Indian Education Society’s College of Architecture and in the USA at the Old Dominion University and Virginia Wesleyan College. Her recent publications include- From Temple to Museums: Colonial Collection and Uma Mahesvara Icons in Middle Ganga Valley (Routledge: 2018); and research papers ‘Removable Heritage: Nalanda Beyond the Mahavihara’ and ‘Between Shrines and Monuments: Heritage of Sacred Spaces in South Bihar.’ She has also published with the online journal wire.in.

She is currently based in Dubai and is designing online courses for the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, University of Oxford, UK. Her research interests include religious iconography, afterlives of shrines, colonial archaeology and the making of museums in South Asia.