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Who Wrote the Shilpa Shastra?

-Oishee Bose The question of who wrote the Shilpa Shastra is often framed as a problem of authorship. In practice, however, it is far more revealing to treat it as a problem of knowledge itself: how it was produced, transmitted, fixed, and authorised in premodern South Asia. Once approached from this angle, the question quickly […]Read More