School of Humanities

The School of Humanities is engaged in research in the broad areas of philosophy, psychology, literature, fine arts, and culture. Research in the School currently focuses on philosophical foundations of sciences; cognitive sciences; scientific and philosophical studies of consciousness; Indian psychology and philosophy; history and philosophy of biology; archaeometalurgy and analysis of ancient metals; and translations of literary classics in Kannada into English.

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Kuili Suganya

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Kuili Suganya
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Heritage Science and Society
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Riverfront Gardens and City Walls of Mughal Agra: A Study of Their Locations, Extent and Subsequent Transformations Using Remote Sensing and GIS
Riverfront gardens and city walls of Mughal Agra: A study of their locations, extent and subsequent transformations using remote sensingG and GIS.
The Significance of Ancient Water Systems and the Sacred Groves in the Landscape of Badami, Karnataka: A Geospatial Study
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Geospatial Analysis of Ancient Water Features in the Archaeological Landscape of Malaprabha River Valley
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M B Rajani
Doctoral and Other Programmes
Doctoral Programmes
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2016

Ekta Gupta

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Ekta Gupta
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Geospatial Analysis of Historical Cartographic Data of Kollam Fort
Historical Coastal Maps: Importance and Challenges in Their Use in Studying Coastal Geomorphology
Historical coastal maps: Importance and challenges in their use in studying coastal geomorphology.
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Advancing Archaeological and Geomorphological Understanding of the Indian Coast using Old Cartographic and Visual Records
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M B Rajani
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Doctoral Programmes
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2016

Smriti Haricharan

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Smriti Haricharan
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School of Humanities
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Heritage Science and Society
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Assistant Professor
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She has been working on the Iron Age-Early Historic (IA-EH) landscape in southern India since 2006, particularly examining burials of that period. She has also been exploring the perceptions and discourse on archaeology field work in India, as well as the participation of public in archaeology.

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Fort Walls and Moats at Vallam, Thanjavur: Exploring Them Using Satellite Images.

M B Rajani

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Her research has two inter-related facets: analyzing cultural landscapes using geospatial data to identify new features of archaeological interest, and advancing the usage of such analysis for preserving built heritage in the face of rapidly growing infrastructural development and urbanization.

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Regulation boundaries for preservation of Cultural Heritage sites
Landscape Morphology and Spatial Patterning of Archaeological Signatures When Viewed from Above.
Geospatial Analysis of Historical Cartographic Data of Kollam Fort
Historical Coastal Maps: Importance and Challenges in Their Use in Studying Coastal Geomorphology
Riverfront Gardens and City Walls of Mughal Agra: A Study of Their Locations, Extent and Subsequent Transformations Using Remote Sensing and GIS
Potential of Geospatial Technologies as a Cognitive and Spatio- visual tool for Mapping the Past
A Geospatial Study of Archaeological Remains at Halebidu: An Integrative Approach to Identify Unexplored Features
Patterns in past settlements: Geospatial analysis of imprints of cultural heritage on landscapes.
A geospatial study of archaeological remains at Halebidu: An integrative approach to identify unexplored features.
Geospatial analysis of historical cartographic data of Kollam fort.
Historical coastal maps: Importance and challenges in their use in studying coastal geomorphology.
Riverfront gardens and city walls of Mughal Agra: A study of their locations, extent and subsequent transformations using remote sensingG and GIS.
Potential of geospatial technologies as a cognitive and spatio-visual tool for mapping the past.
Radiocarbon dating of historical bricks: Exploring the unprotected archaeological mounds in the environs of excavated site of Nalanda
Remote sensing investigation of the Buddhist archaeological landscape around Sannati, India.
Nalanda: A tale in the twist.
The Significance of Ancient Water Systems and the Sacred Groves in the Landscape of Badami, Karnataka: A Geospatial Study

Srikumar M Menon

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Heritage Science and Society
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Associate Professor
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His primary research interests are focused on prehistoric and early historic monumental architecture, as well as traditional knowledge systems, including astronomy.

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Towards an Institutional Strategy for the Study of Sustainability
Replicating the Mountain: The Case of Temple Shikharas.
Jakanachari: An Artisan or a Collective Genius?
Megaliths of Pattadakal.
Of Dwarves and Dolmens: Tracking the Little People Legends of Megalithic South India
Flux and Continuity in Monument-Building Traditions in South India
Stories that Stones Tell
Vatapi’s Sandstone Shapers
Eclectic Architecture, Elegant Details (The Nagara Temples of the Hoysalas)
Flux and continuity in monument-building traditions in south India In:  Rituals, Collapse, and Radical Transformation in Archaic States edited by Joanne M.A. Murphy.
Replicating the mountain: The case of temple shikharas In: New Facets of Indian Art, Architecture and Epigraphy (Essays in honour of Prof. S. L. Shantakumari) edited by C. B. Patil, Shrinivas V. Padigar, and V. Shivanand.
In search of a mythical artisan: Tracking the Jakanachari legend of Karnataka
Variants on a theme: A comparison of five dolmens of the hire Benakal type
Remote sensing investigation of the Buddhist archaeological landscape around Sannati, India.
Stories that stone tell.
Vatapi's sandstone shapers.
Hampi’s granite carvers.
ReStandards, Spatial Framework and Technologies for National GIS
Protohistoric megaliths or graves of chalukyan artisans: New discovery of a megalithic site near Pattadakal.
Learning from rural landscapes. 
The transient cascade of Badami.
Stones slanted towards science.
The stunner at Somanathapura. 
Meet “Raya Asoko” of Kanaganahalli: The only inscribed portrait of Emperor Ashoka,
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