Dr Naman Ahuja was awarded a Small Study and Research Grant (India) 1997-98, when a PhD student at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, to study the female form in ancient Indian terracotta art.
Dr Ahuja received his PhD from SOAS in 2001. He is Professor of Indian Art and Architecture at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi where his research and graduate teaching focus on Indian iconography and sculpture, temple architecture and Sultanate period painting. He is also the Editor of Marg, India’s leading quarterly magazine and journal on the arts, published from Mumbai. His studies on privately owned objects—terracottas, ivories and small finds—have drawn attention to a wide range of ritual cultures and transcultural exchanges at an everyday, quotidian level. He has curated several exhibitions, most notably The Body in Indian Art and Thought, and published books, including The Making of the Modern Indian Artist Craftsman: Devi Prasad.
Professor Ahuja is also a Trustee of NTICVA,