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Deeptha Achar teaches at the Department of English, M.S. University of Baroda. She has worked on representations of Africa in popular boys’ fiction of the late nineteenth century Britain for her Ph. D dissertation. Her current research interests center around education and childhood in India and she is currently engaged in a project entitled ‘Educational Policies and Gender: The Case of Gujarat’.

The author received her B.A. in the History of At from Kala Bhavana, Vishwabharati University, Santiniketan and took her M.A. in the Department of Art History & Aesthetics at the Faculty of Fine Arts, M S University, Baroda. She then enrolled herself as an M. Phil student at the Faculty or Oriental Studies, Oxford University to work on “The Theory of imitation (anukriti) in Early Indian art” with Prof. B K Matilal. Later, for her doctoral dissertation, she took up the task of editing the Citrasutra of the Visundharmottara Purana with Prof. Alexis Sanderson. Grants from the Charles Wallace, the British Council, the Al Falak Foundation and the Radha Krishnan Memorial Bequest funded her doctoral research. Dr. Dave Mukherji is currently Reader of Art History & Aesthetics at the Faculty of fine Arts, M S University, Baroda. She has lectured in India and Europe and published a range of articles on historiography of Art History and the dialectics of nationalism and ‘naturalism’ in the study of Indian art. At present, her research focuses on the question of caste and gender in the study of early treatises of Indian art.

Shivaji K Panikkar teaches at the Department of Art History and Aesthetics, M.S. University of Baroda. He is the author of Saptamatrka Worship and Sculptures: An Iconological Interpretation of Conflicts and Resolutions in the ‘Storied’ Brahmanical Icons; Twentieth Century Indian Sculptures: Last two Decades (ed) and the exhibition catalogue creative process: Tangible Realities, Concrete Myths are among his publications. He is presently engaged in writing on art development in Madras since the 1940s.