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The distinguished art historian B.N. Goswamy is Professor Emeritus of Art history at the Panjab University, Chandigarh. His work covers a wide range and is regarded especially in the area of Indian painting as having influenced much thinking. He has been the recipient of many honours, including the Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship, the Rietberg Award for Outstanding Research in art history, the Padma Shri 1998 and the Padma Bhushan 2008. Professor Goswamy has taught as visiting Professor, at several universities across the world, among them the universities of Pennsylvania, Heidelberg, California at Berkeley and Los Angeles Texas at Austin Zurich and ETH Federal University at Zurich. He has also been responsible for major exhibitions of Indian art at Paris San Francisco, Zurich San Diego, New York and New Delhi.

Among his many publications are : Pahari Painting: The Family as the basis of style 1968, painters at the Sikh Court 1975 essence of Indian art 1986, wonders of a golden age: painting at the court of the Great Mughals with E. Fischer 1987, Pahari Masters: Court Painters of Northern India with E. Fischer 1992, Indian costumes in the collection of the Calico Museum of Textiles 1993, Painted visions: The Goenka Collection of Indian Painting 1999, Piety and splendour: Sikh Heritage in Art 2000, Domains of wonder, selected masterworks of Indian Painting from the Edwin Binney Collection with Caron Smith San Diego 2005, I see no stranger: early Sikh Art and Devotion with Caron Smith 2006, The word is sacred, sacred is the word: The Indian Manuscript Tradition New Delhi, 2006 and Indian Paintings in the Sarabhai Foundation 2010.