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associate professor
Art History & Visual Studies
University of Victoria
Canada
Melia Belli Bose is a specialist in the visual cultures of early modern and contemporary South Asia. She received her PhD in 2009 from the University of California, Los Angeles and her undergraduate and master’s degrees from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.Melia’s first book, Royal Umbrellas of Stone: Memory, Politics, and Public Identity in Rajput Funerary Art (Brill, 2015) examines memorial architecture commemorating members of the royal Hindu Rajput community in northern India.She has also published peer-reviewed book chapters and articles in journals such as Archives of Asian Art, Ars Orientalis, Artibus Asiae, and Asian Ethnology on Maratha painting and architecture; monuments commissioned by Mayawati, a female dalit politician in Lucknow; contemporary Bangladeshi art, and the Hindi panegyrics of a Rajput folk hero.
South Asian art, Islamic World.