Parul Pandya Dhar is Associate Professor in the Department of History, University of Delhi, and specializes in the history of ancient and medieval Indian art, with further research interests in pre-modern Asian cross-cultural interactions. She has authored The Torana in Indian and Southeast Asian Architecture (2010) and edited Indian Art History: Changing Perspectives (2011) and Cultural Interface of India with Asia: Religion, Art and Architecture (2004, co-edited) besides contributing several research papers in journals and books. She is an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow (2007-08), Germany. An alumnus of Kalakshetra-Chennai, she has also been well-known as an accomplished classical Indian dance-artiste.