Kalyani Madhura Ramachandran

Kalyani is an art historian of premodern South Asia. Her research focuses on early Buddhist art and its transmissions across South and Southeast Asia. She was previously a Research Assistant in the Department of Asian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Kalyani has a PhD from Columbia University, MPhil from the University of Oxford on the Rhodes Scholarship, and a B.A. from the University of Delhi, where she received the Department of History Prize.

Select Publications

• “The Matter of Sculpture: Isamu Noguchi and Early India,” Ars Orientalis 55 (February 2026): 88—118.
• “Buddhist Art and Architecture in Southern India,” Oxford Bibliographies (January 2026) [Co-authored with Akira Shimada].
• “Sculptural Pictures of Karla.” In Holly Shaffer and Laurel Peterson edited Painters, Ports, and Profits: Artists and the East India Company in India and China, 1760–1830. New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, January 2026, 210—214.
• “Ellora’s Living Rock.” In Holly Shaffer and Laurel Peterson edited Painters, Ports, and Profits: Artists and the East India Company in India and China, 1760–1830. New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, January 2026, 215—217.
• “The Representation of a Universal Monarch in Early Buddhist Āndhra.” In The Long Arc of South Asian Art–A Reader in Honor of Vidya Dehejia, edited by Annapurna Garimella, 139—149. New Delhi: Women Unlimited Press/The Marg Foundation, 2022.