Dr Sharma’s research interests lie at the intersection of colonialism and culture. Her research has focused on artistic exchange in the long 18th century, women in colonial India as well as British colonial and late imperial landscape history. Her recent articles look at portraiture and the practice of proto-colonial survey strategies, the contested art history of ivory souvenirs in colonial India as well as the role of ‘oriental’ commodities in the British domestic sphere.
Dr Sharma leads the research cluster CHITrA, Connecting Histories of Indian and Transregional Art. The cluster emerged from an earlier partnership with Dr Lotte Hoek and Professor Ed Hollis, as members of the scientific committee for the international biennial symposium of the American Council for South and South East Asian Art at ECA in Nov 2019, chaired by Dr Sharma. CHITrA meets regularly in the semester through a monthly reading group. For regular updates follow us on Twitter @ArtsofSouthAsia
Selected publications
Books
2017. Philippa Ardych, Nadia Ali, Robert Bracey, Katherine Cross, Dominic Daglish, Jas Elsner, Miriam Frenkel, Stefanie Lenk, Maria Lidova, Yuthika Sharma, Rachel Wood. Imagining the Divine: Art and the Rise of World Religions, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.
2012. William Dalrymple and Yuthika Sharma, Eds. Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi, 1707-1857 Yale University Press, with Asia Society Press.
2008. Vidya Dehejia, Dipti Khera, Yuthika Sharma. Delight in Design: Indian Silver for the Raj. Ahmedabad: Mapin Publications.
Papers
2018. Yuthika Sharma ‘Village portraits in William Fraser’s Portfolio of Native Drawings’ in C Branfoot (ed.) Portraiture in India since the Mughals: Art, History, Representation. I.B. Tauris.
2018. Yuthika Sharma with Pauline Davies, ‘A jaghire without a crime: East India Company and the Indian Ocean Material World at Osterley 1700-1800’ The East India Company at Home,1757-1857: The British country house in an imperial and global context. London: UCL Press.
2017. Chanchal Dadlani and Yuthika Sharma, “Beyond the Taj Mahal: Late Mughal Visual Culture, 1658-1858” in “Modernity, Empire, Colony, Nation (1650-1950)” in Gulru Necipoglu and Finbarr Barry Flood, Eds. Companion to Islamic Art Vol. II London: Wiley-Blackwell.
2017. Yuthika Sharma. 'Mughal Delhi on my Lapel: The Charmed Life of Ivory Miniatures in Delhi, 1827–1880'. in J McDonagh, R Sundar Rajan, S Chaudhari & B Murray, Eds. Commodities and Culture in the Colonial World. Routledge.
Further publications are available through Research Explorer.
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