S5E2: Branding the Mahenjodaro Girl ft. Dr. Ashish Kumar

There was some controversy about whether it was right or fair to clothe the nude bronze figurine from Mohenjo Daro when it was recently adopted as the mascot of an International Museum Expo, 2023 being held in New Delhi. Dr. Ashish Kumar, an expert in ancient Indian history who teaches at the Punjab University, Chandigarh in a freewheeling conversation with the host Dr. Anirban Bandyopadhyay discusses the caterer of this most interesting archaeological discovery.

It turns out that the figure was inaccurately characterized as a dancing girl from an Adivasi background. Dr. Kumar also offers an account of how the turns of contemporary histories, such as the partition, often determine the career and public images of historical artifacts in strangely unanticipated ways.

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