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Masters Ancient Indian History Delhi University
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According to Wikipedia, Himanshu Prabha Ray is an Indian Sanskrit scholar, historian, and archaeologist. Her interests areas are marine archaeology, history, and culture of South Asia. Ray is a recipient of the Anneliese Maier research award of the Humboldt Foundation for collaborative research with the Distant Worlds Programme and an Honorary Professor of the Distant Worlds Programme, Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. She has also served as a professor in the Centre for Historical Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India. Ray was appointed as the Chairperson of the National Monuments Authority, under the government of India, until 2015.

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Himanshu Prabha Ray's Published Works

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Published Works

The Archaeology of Seafaring in Ancient South Asia (2003) (111)
The Winds of Change: Buddhism and the Maritime Links of Early South Asia (1999) (99)
Inscribed Pots, Emerging Identities: The Social Milieu of Trade (2006) (65)
Monastery and guild: Commerce under the Sātavāhanas (1986) (63)
Early Maritime Contacts Between South and Southeast Asia (1989) (49)
Cross currents and community networks : the history of the Indian Ocean world (2007) (37)
The Return of the Buddha: Ancient Symbols for a New Nation (2014) (37)
The Axial Age in Asia:The Archaeology of Buddhism (500 B.C.‐A.D. 500) (2008) (30)
The Yavana Presence in Ancient India (1988) (28)
Asian Merchants and Businessmen in the Indian Ocean and the China Sea . Edited By Denys Lombard and Jean Aubin. New Delhi and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 375 pp. $35.00 (cloth). (2002) (27)
Colonial Archaeology in South Asia: The Legacy of Sir Mortimer Wheeler (2003) (26)
Tradition and archaeology : early maritime contacts in the Indian Ocean : proceedings of the international seminar, techno-archaeological perspectives of seafaring in the Indian Ocean, 4th cent. B.C.-15th cent. A.D., New Delhi, February 28-March 4, 1994 (2012) (19)
Archaeology of Seafaring: The Indian Ocean in the Ancient Period (1999) (18)
Kanheri: the archaeology of an early Buddhist pilgrimage centre in (1994) (16)
Archaeology as History in Early South Asia (2004) (15)
The West Coast of India and the Maritime World of the Western Indian Ocean (2014) (12)
Early historical urbanization: The case of the Western Deccan (1987) (11)
[LATER PREHISTORY IN SOUTHEAST ASIA AND EARLIEST CONTACTS WITH INDIA] In search of Suvarnabhumi: early sailing networks in the Bay of Bengal (1991) (11)
The Sea, Identity and History: From the Bay of Bengal to the South China Sea (2013) (11)
Memory as History: The Legacy of Alexander in Asia (2007) (11)
Early historical trade: An overview (1989) (10)
Reimagining Aśoka : memory and history (2012) (10)
The Political Abuse of History: Babri Masjid-Rama Janmabhumi Dispute (1990) (10)
Seafaring in the Bay of Bengal in the Early Centuries AD (1990) (9)
Maritime Archaeology: Historical Descriptions of the Seafarings of the Kalingas (2002) (8)
The Archaeology of Bengal: Trading Networks, Cultural Identities (2006) (8)
Archaeology and empire (2008) (7)
The western Indian Ocean and the early maritime links of the Indian subcontinent (1994) (7)
The apsidal shrine in early Hinduism: Origins, cultic affiliation, patronage (2004) (6)
A resurvey of Roman Contacts with the East (1993) (6)
Archaeology and Text: The Temple in South Asia (2010) (5)
Reconstructing Pre-Modern Biological Translocations in the Indian Ocean* (2013) (5)
Buddhist Heritage of Odisha (2013) (5)
Archaeology and Buddhism in South Asia (2017) (5)
Coastal Shrines and Transnational Maritime Networks Across India and Southeast Asia (2020) (4)
Trade in the Western Deccan under the Satavahanas (1985) (4)
The Shrine in Early Hinduism:The Changing Sacred Landscape (2009) (4)
Seafaring and Maritime Contacts: An Agenda for Historical Analysis (1996) (4)
Maritime Archaeology of the Indian Ocean (2017) (4)
Decolonising Heritage in South Asia (2018) (3)
‘Project Mausam’. India’s Transnational Initiative: Revisiting UNESCO’s World Heritage Convention (2019) (3)
Buddhism and Gandhara: An Archaeology of Museum Collections (2018) (3)
The emergence of urban centres in Bengal: implications for the late prehistory of Southeast Asia (1997) (3)
Sanghol and the archaeology of Punjab (2010) (3)
Archeobotanical evidence of Roman trade with India (1999) (3)
Narratives of Faith: Buddhism and Colonial Archaeology in Monsoon Asia (2007) (3)
Providing for the Buddha: Monastic Centres in Eastern India (2008) (3)
Archaeology of Seafaring (1999) (3)
Buddhist Monuments Across the Bay of Bengal: Cultural Routes and Maritime Networks (2019) (2)
Sailing Ships, Naval Expeditions and ‘Project Mausam’ (2020) (2)
Trading partners across the Indian Ocean: the making of maritime communities (2015) (2)
Trans-locality and Mobility across the Bay of Bengal: Nagapattinam in Context (2018) (2)
Negotiating cultural identity : landscapes in early medieval South Asian history (2017) (2)
The Archaeology of Sacred Spaces: The temple in western India, 2nd century BCE–8th century CE (2016) (2)
Sailing to India Diverse Narratives of Travel in the Western Indian Ocean (2010) (2)
Mausam: Maritime Cultural Landscapes Across the Indian Ocean (2014) (1)
Transnational heritage (2018) (1)
Sasanian maritime activity 0 • 0 0 •••• 0 0 •• 0 0 • 0 (2013) (1)
Book Review: The Maritime Frontier of Burma: Exploring Political, Cultural and Commercial Interaction in the Indian Ocean World, 1200–1800 (2004) (1)
History of Fishing and Sailing Communities in the Western Indian Ocean (2019) (1)
Maritime Landscapes and Coastal Architecture: The Long Coastline of India (2014) (1)
Book review: Dong Wang, Longmen’s Stone Buddhas and Cultural Heritage: When Antiquity Met Modernity in China (2021) (1)
Early buddhist caves of Western Deccan: indian long-distance trade in the Early Centuries A.D. (1988) (1)
Legislation and the Study of the Past: The Archaeological Survey of India and Challenges of the Present (2019) (1)
The Indian Ocean in Antiquity : whither maritime history ? (2000) (1)
Culture and Diplomacy: Maritime Cultural Heritage of the Western Indian Ocean (2020) (1)
Trade in Early India (2005) (1)
Buddhist Monuments in Colonial and Post-colonial India (2008) (1)
From Salsette to Socotra: Islands across the Seas and Implications for Heritage (2018) (1)
Introduction: Beyond National Boundaries (2017) (1)
Southeast Asia in the Ancient Indian Ocean World (2016) (1)
Power, Presence and Space (2020) (1)
Coins in India : power and communication (2006) (1)
Piety and power : pilgrimage in the old world (1996) (1)
Book Review: The Early Voyagers of the East: The Rise in Maritime Trade of the Kalingas in Ancient India (2004) (0)
Temples of the Indus: Studies in the Hindu Architecture of Ancient Pakistan. By Michael W. Meister. (2011) (0)
Peninsular India and the Bay of Bengal: mobility and travel, 4th century BCE to 8th century CE (2013) (0)
Introduction : The archaeology of ritual in South Asian contexts (2020) (0)
Shipwreck Sites (2020) (0)
Book Reviews : MEERA ABRAHAM, Two Medieval Merchant Guilds of South India, South Asian Studies, No. XVIII, Manohar, New Delhi, 1988, pp. xii + 273, Rs. 200 (1989) (0)
Maritime Cultural Landscapes and Expanding Networks (2020) (0)
The Archaeology of an Early Historic Town in Central India (review) (2003) (0)
Book Review: Maritime India (2005) (0)
The Art of Hubbing: The Role of Small Islands in Indian Ocean Connectivity (2015) (0)
Gujarat and the Sea (2013) (0)
Religious Travel and Rituals (2017) (0)
Phasook Indrawooth: (10 May 1945 – 7 September 2016) (2017) (0)
Ethnographies of sailing (2018) (0)
Book Reviews : T.S. MAXWELL, ed., Eastern Approaches: Essays on Asian Art and Archaeology, Oxford University Press, 1992, 252 + xii pp., plates 80, Rs 415 (1994) (0)
Warp and Weft: Producing, Trading and Consuming Indian Textiles Across the Seas (First–Thirteenth Centuries CE) (2018) (0)
The Shifting Equations (2017) (0)
Archaeology of Buddhism in Asia (2019) (0)
The Routledge Handbook of Hindu Temples (2022) (0)
The Coastal Shrine and Maritime Networks, 7th to 13th Centuries CE (2020) (0)
Indo-Japan Dialogue in the 20th Century and Cultural Heritage in the New World Order (2019) (0)
Early Historic Gujarat and the Trading World of the Western Indian Ocean (2019) (0)
The ‘Buddhist Cosmopolis’ Re-Examined (2020) (0)
Spread of Buddhism (2017) (0)
Book Reviews : N. LAHIRI, The Archaeology of Indian Trade Routes (up to c. 200 BC), Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1992, 461 pp., Rs. 450 (1993) (0)
Cultural roots of India's ocean : beyond trade (2015) (0)
Decoding Gandharan art (2017) (0)
From Religious Shrines to Monuments (2020) (0)
From the Tamil Coast to Vietnam (2020) (0)
Politics of Silence and Writing of Ancient Indian History (2002) (0)
Book Reviews and Notices (1989) (0)
Book Review: Boats of Bengal: Eighteenth Century Portraits by Balthazar Solvyns (2001) (0)
Book Review: Pelagic Passageways: The Northern Bay of Bengal before Colonialism (2012) (0)
Culture, the Written Word, and the Sea, 3rd Century BCE to 4th Century CE (2020) (0)
BOOK REVIEWS (1960) (0)
Book Review: The Bombay Country Ships 1790–1833 (2000) (0)
R.S. Sharma, Rethinking India’s Past (New Delhi: Oxford University Press), 2009, pp. 299 (2011) (0)
The Archaeology of Knowledge Traditions of the Indian Ocean World (2020) (0)
The Mauryan Empire (2021) (0)
Book Review: Trade and Traders in Early Indian Society (2002) (0)
The impact of trade on the Western Deccan during the Satavahana period (1983) (0)
Indian World Heritage Sites in Context (2014) (0)
Book Reviews : V. BEGLEY and R.D. DE PUMA, eds., Rome and India—The Ancient Sea Trade, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1992, 266 + xix pp., Rs. 800 (1994) (0)
The West Coast of India and the Maritime World of the Western Indian Ocean (2014) (0)
O. W. WOLTERS, Early Southeast Asia: Selected Essays. Craig J. Reynolds ed. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008. xii + 246 pp. ISBN: 978-0-87727-773-6 (hbk.); 978-0-87727-743-9 (pbk.). $46.95 (hbk.); $23.95 (pbk.). (2010) (0)
THE SEA, IDENTITY AND HISTORY (2013) (0)
Seafaring communities in the Indian Ocean. Research strategies and perspectives (1996) (0)
The Written Word (2017) (0)

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