Raghunath Akarsh is a PhD Candidate at the Department of History of Art and Architecture where he studies the trans-regional interactions of early religious material culture with a focus on locating Tamiḻakam in the South-Southeast Asian cultural encounters of Southern Buddhism. Akarsh holds a BA in History from University of Delhi (2016) and MA in Buddhist Art History and Conservation from the Courtauld Institute of Art (2019). His research interests span across South Asian religious, visual and performing arts, drawn from an extensive pool of visual aesthetics in Sanskrit and Tamil literary cultures, ritual traditions, early modern ethno-musicology and technical analysis of art.
