Dr Subhasree Banik was awarded a Small Study and Research Grant (India) 2014-15, when a PhD student, Dept of Archaeology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, for a study and documentation of Gupta coins preserved in major public collections in India (Patna Museum, Patna; the State Museum, Lucknow; Allahabad Museum, Allahabad; and Bharat Kala Bhavan, Benaras Hindu University, Varanasi).
Dr Banik was awarded her Ph.D. from the University of Calcutta. Her research offered a nuanced reinterpretation of Gupta coin-hoards from the Ganga–Yamuna Valley and imperial ideology through close material analysis. She began her professional engagement with heritage conservation at the Kolkata Chapter of INTACH, in collaboration with the West Bengal Heritage Commission, Dept. of INCA, Govt. of West Bengal, where architectural and archaeological practices shaped her early scholarly formation. She later served as Project Assistant (Antiquity Documentation) with the Directorate of Archaeology and Museums, Dept. of INCA, Government of West Bengal, contributing to the systematic recording of material culture. Between 2017 and 2019, she was a Project Fellow under the UGC–UPE Phase II programme in the Department of Islamic History and Culture at the University of Calcutta, under the Look East Project of Govt. of India. Following her doctorate, she undertook post-PhD research as a Research Scholar with the Shivlee Trust, Chicago. A recipient of the ICHR Junior Research Fellowship, UGC NET and a NTICVA grant, she is currently a Research Fellow at the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies (MAKAIAS), Ministry of Culture, Government of India.
Her publications in national and international journals address newly discovered Gupta hoards, crack marks and minting anomalies, and evolving debates in early Indian monetary history. Her work spans Gupta dīnāras, Kuṣāṇa coinage, minting technology, and the history of numismatics. With over a decade of engagement in major museum collections, she
combines meticulous epigraphic and material analysis with broader historical inquiry. She also works on Gupta temple architecture, epigraphic records and Brihattara Bharat (Geater India): Connecting Asia through Culture and Shared Heritage.