The Early Iron Age in the Indian subcontinent has been studied and categorised into six zones: North Western Frontier, Baluchistan, Ganga Valley, Eastern India, Malwa and Berar in Central India and Deccan Peninsular and Southern India. Each zone had its own unique features and developed independently.
In her Talk, "Understanding the Early Iron Age: Zonal Differences Within the Indian Subcontinent" , Dr Oishi Roy of IISER, Mohali will trace the similarities and differences and reasons for this development with the aid of new excavations and dates that have come to light. She will also attempt to infer the socio-cultural construct of the society and draw inferences about the iron technology adopted.
The online Talk in English is at 5.30 pm IST on Saturday, November, 1, 2025.
About The Speaker:
Oishi Roy is a Post – Doctoral Fellow at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali under the Palaeo – Arch Lab. Her current research revolves around indigenous smithy techniques and the smithy communities of Eastern India.
Dr Roy did her masters at the Rashtrasant Tukdaoji Maharaja Nagpur University in Ancient Indian History Culture and Archaeology and her Post-Graduate Diploma at Deccan College Pune. She did her PhD in Ancient Iron Technology of Early Iron Age from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.
Dr Roy worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Archaeological Sciences Centre at IIT Gandhinagar. Later, she served as Assistant Archaeologist at Bihar Heritage Development Society, Patna and was involved in the famous Telhara Excavation. Besides being an archaeo-metallurgist she have excavated multiple sites ranging from Lower Palaeolithic to Early Medieval.
In 2019 she was awarded with the prestigious H.D Sankalia Young Archaeologist Award for her research paper on Evidence for Steel Making at Naikund and its Relationship with Mahurjhari, Borgaon and Khairwada.
She has recently co-authored an excavation report, ‘Sri Prathamasivapura Mahavihara: Excavating an Early Medieval Buddhist Monastery at Telhara in Magadh (Eastern India).
Chola Murals of Brihadisvara Temple, Thanjavur: A New Perspective by PS Sriraman. Oct 4, 2025
In his talk, "Chola Murals of Brihadisvara Temple, Thanjavur: A New Perspective”, P S Sriraman will introduce the objectives, methodology and outcomes of ASI's photo documentation of the murals. He will then share newer interpretations of some of the panels, while answering questions like: "Are the murals decorative or a tool like the inscriptions of the temple recording contemporary events or simply Chitrasalas of images?”
The online Talk in English is at 5.30 pm IST on Saturday, October 4, 2025.
About The Speaker:
P. S. Sriraman’s association with the Archaeological Survey of India began in 1984 as a PG Diploma student. Subsequently, he joined ASI in a permanent capacity in 1987. He has conducted intensive fieldwork in the Kolar region for documenting its archaeological wealth besides other similar initiatives in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. He has participated in excavations at Banahalli, Kolar district a proto-historic site, at Gingee, a medieval site, and at Keeladi and Kodumanal, early historic sites in Tamil Nadu.
He has managed the museums at Lothal, Fort St George Museum, Chennai and Hampi, where he organised extensive re-organisation work. He had a brief stint in Agra where he was instrumental in displaying all excavated antiquities including the Jain images and Mughal artefacts in the Fatehpur Sikri museum. The Kalibangan museum was reorganised under his guidance. He has undertaken several conservation projects in the Forts of Chittorgarh, Kumbalgarh and Jaisalmer in Rajasthan and many other monuments in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.
Sriraman was instrumental in the design and execution of the documentation of the Chola murals in the Brihadisvara temple, Thanjavur and also the Kangara murals at Tira Sujanpur. He has authored two books: Chōl̲a Murals: Documentation and Study of the Chōl̲a Murals of Bṛihadīśvara Temple, Thanjavur, (2010), Murals of Tira Sujanpur (2013), published by Archaeological Survey of India.
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