Tamil Heritage Trust
"From Amaravati to Salihundam and Beyond: The Buddhist Patronage Networks of Early Historic Andhra" by Dr Suchandra Ghosh
on-line talk in English on February 3, 2024, 5.30 pm IST.
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Andhra is dotted with the remains of many Buddhist stupas and
monasteries starting from the late centuries BCE. The fertile
plains of Krishna and Godavari deltas provided the rich agrarian
hinterlands for these Buddhist sites that were located along the coast
as well as in the interior lands.
What were the social and economic linkages that sustained these early
sites? And what were the interactions between the sites
themselves? How did these centres influence the regions on the
other side of the Bay of Bengal?
In her online Talk, "From Amaravati to Salihundam and Beyond: The
Buddhist Patronage Networks of Early Historic Andhra", Dr Suchandra
Ghosh will utilise the numerous donative records at Amaravati to give us
a glimpse of the lives and times of the people of that period as viewed
through the lens of the Gahapatis, wealthy agricultural notables of the
era. She will also explore the relationships between the various
Buddhist sites in the region.
Dr Suchandra Ghosh is Professor of Ancient Indian History in
the department of History, University of Hyderabad. Her interests
include Politico-Cultural History of Indo-Iranian Borderlands, Linkages
between South and South-East Asia, Indian Ocean Buddhist and Trade
Network and the history of Everyday Life.
She is a recipient of the Charles Wallace Visiting Fellowship, Nehru
Trust UK Travel Award, ENITAS Scholarship, Chulalongkarn University,
Bangkok, Lowick Memorial Grant, Royal Numismatic Society, London,
Director de Etudes Associe fellowship from Fondation Maison des Sciences
de l’homme, Paris (2018).
She was awarded the Savitri Chandra Shobha Memorial Prize of Indian
History Congress, for the book From the Oxus to the Indus: A Political
and Cultural Study in 2017. She has co-edited several books and
published numerous essays and papers in international journals.
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