Srikumar M Menon

Associate Professor
Phone
+919844734781
Room no
F 27
Department

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

Publications
Srikumar M Menon
Heritage Science and Society
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.
Routledge, pp. 161-184.
2021
Srikumar M Menon
Heritage Science and Society
Flux and Continuity in Monument-Building Traditions in South India
In Murphy, J. M. A. (Ed.) Rituals, Collapse and Radical Transformation in Archaic States. 161-184. London and New York, Routledge.
2021
Srikumar M Menon
Heritage Science and Society
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.
Delhi: Agam Kala Prakashan, pp. 66-75.
2020
Srikumar M Menon
Heritage Science and Society
Variants on a theme: A comparison of five dolmens of the hire Benakal type
In: The Archaeology of Burials: Examples from Indian Subcontinent edited by Rajesh S.V., Abhayan G.S., Ajit Kumar and Ebsan Rahmath Ilahi. New Delhi: New Bharatiya Book Corporation, pp. 361-395.
2019
Srikumar M Menon, G Apoorva
Heritage Science and Society
In search of a mythical artisan: Tracking the Jakanachari legend of Karnataka
In: Human and Heritage: An Archaeological Spectrum of Asiatic Countries edited by S.V. Rajesh et.al. New Delhi: New Bharatiya Book Corporation, pp. 497-524.
2019
Srikumar M Menon
Heritage Science and Society
Protohistoric megaliths or graves of chalukyan artisans: New discovery of a megalithic site near Pattadakal.
Heritage: Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies in Archaeology 7: 135-158. 
1 January 2019
Journal Articles
image Tejal Kanitkar, Nithin Nagaraj, Narendar Pani, Tarun Menon, Srikumar M Menon
Towards an Institutional Strategy for the Study of Sustainability
Reports, 2020, (NIAS/U/RR/09/2020)
2020
Srikumar M Menon
Heritage Science and Society
Eclectic Architecture, Elegant Details (The Nagara Temples of the Hoysalas)
Deccan Herald Spectrum, January 30, 2021
30 January 2021
Srikumar M Menon
Heritage Science and Society
Hampi’s granite carvers.
Deccan Herald Spectrum, 26 December 2020.
26 December 2020
Op-Eds and Comments
Srikumar M Menon
Heritage Science and Society
Vatapi's sandstone shapers.
Deccan Herald Spectrum, 19 December 2020.
19 December 2020
Op-Eds and Comments
Srikumar M Menon
Heritage Science and Society
Stories that stone tell.
Deccan Herald Spectrum, 21 November 2020.
21 November 2020
Op-Eds and Comments
Srikumar M Menon
Heritage Science and Society
Vatapi’s Sandstone Shapers
Deccan Herald Spectrum, November 21, 2020
21 November 2020
Srikumar M Menon
Heritage Science and Society
Stories that Stones Tell
Deccan Herald Spectrum, November 21, 2020
21 November 2020
Srikumar M Menon
Heritage Science and Society
Megaliths of Pattadakal.
Deccan Herald Spectrum, September 26, 2020.
26 September 2020
Srikumar M Menon
Heritage Science and Society
Jakanachari: An Artisan or a Collective Genius?
Deccan Herald Spectrum, July 18, 2020.
18 July 2020
Srikumar M Menon
Heritage Science and Society
Meet “Raya Asoko” of Kanaganahalli: The only inscribed portrait of Emperor Ashoka,
Deccan Herald, 24 January 2020
24 January 2020
Op-Eds and Comments
Srikumar M Menon
Heritage Science and Society
ReStandards, Spatial Framework and Technologies for National GIS
In: New Facets of Indian Art, Architecture and Epigraphy (Essays in honour of Prof. S. L. Shantakumari) edited by C.B. Patil, S.V. Padigar and Shivananda. Delhi: Agam Kala Prakashan, pp 66-75.
1 January 2020
Srikumar M Menon, Agnihotri S
Heritage Science and Society
Of Dwarves and Dolmens: Tracking the Little People Legends of Megalithic South India
INTACH Journal of Heritage Studies, 4:1, 89-98
1 January 2020
Srikumar M Menon
Heritage Science and Society
Stones slanted towards science.
Deccan Herald, 22 November 2019.
22 November 2019
Op-Eds and Comments
Srikumar M Menon
Heritage Science and Society
The stunner at Somanathapura. 
Deccan Herald, 19 October 2019.
19 October 2019
Op-Eds and Comments
Srikumar M Menon
Heritage Science and Society
The transient cascade of Badami.
Deccan Herald, 8 June 2019
8 June 2019
NIAS Comments
Srikumar M Menon
Heritage Science and Society
Learning from rural landscapes. 
Deccan Herald, 14 April 2019.
14 April 2019
NIAS Comments
M B Rajani, Srikumar M Menon
co-authored
Heritage Science and Society
Remote sensing investigation of the Buddhist archaeological landscape around Sannati, India.
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 25: 294-307.
1 January 2019
NIAS Comments
Srikumar M Menon
Heritage Science and Society
Replicating the Mountain: The Case of Temple Shikharas.
In: New Facets of Indian Art, Architecture and Epigraphy (Essays in honour of Prof SL Shantakumari). Agam Kala Prakashan, New Delhi, pp. 66-75. ISBN: 978-81-942937-1-2.