AVID Roundtable - Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi

Dr. Yuthika Sharma is a historian of South Asian art and Programme Director, Art in the Global Middle Ages – MSc and Renaissance & Early Modern Studies – MSc, and Lecturer, Indian/South Asian Art History at the University of Edinburgh. She works on the art and intellectual history of South Asia in the early modern period. Yuthika received her PhD from Columbia University, New York, with specialisms in Indian painting and early Buddhist art and architecture (minor specialism). At present, she offers advanced undergraduate and postgraduate courses on early modern South Asia and critical and thematic approaches to the study of South Asian art and painting as well as survey courses on early and later Indian art. Before joining HoA, Yuthika worked in the Asia Department of the British Museum (2014-15). She was also AHRC Cultural Engagement fellow in the Department of History at UCL as part of the Leverhulme funded project, The East India Company at Home (2013). Yuthika's previous curatorial work includes the co-curated exhibition and book Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi, 1707-1857 at the Asia Society, New York (2012) and curatorial support for the exhibition and book Delight in Design: Indian Silver for the Raj (2008). More recently, she curated an exhibition at the University of Edinburgh Main Library, Highlands to Hindustan (2017), in which over 50 objects spanning two millennia of the art and culture of the Indian subcontinent were put on display.

Maithili Parekh is an art historian currently pursuing her PhD on Indian miniature painting, with a particular focus on collections built in the first half of the 20th century. She is also a lecturer for the Art History program at Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai. Maithili is on the advisory committee at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA which holds the historic Stella Kramrisch classical Indian collection. She has also been on the board of the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA). Before moving into the academic world, Maithili was Director and Head of Sotheby’s India working closely with institutional and private collectors across the country. She has also worked at modern and contemporary art galleries in New York. Maithili studied Art History and International Relations at Brown University, USA and received a Masters from the London School of Economics (LSE), UK. Prior to her involvement in the art world, she worked on Wall Street at Morgan Stanley.