S.P. Verma

Professor S.P. Verma (b.1942) taught at the Department of History, Aligarh Muslim University. Dr. Verma is the author of Art and Material Culture in the Paintings of Akbar?s Court (1978); Mughal Painters and their Work: A Biographical Survey and Comprehensive Catalogue (1994); Mughal Painter of Flora and Fauna ? Ustad Mansur (1994); Painting the Mughal Experience (2005) and Eighteen Fifty Seven: Revolt and Contemporary Visuals (2007). He has edited three volumes of Art and Culture (1993, 1996 and 2002); Flora and Fauna in Mughal Art (1999) and 1857: An Illustrated History (2008). Ordinary Life in Mughal India (2011) is his recent work. In 1986-87, Dr. Verma worked at the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. as a Fulbright Fellow and in 2005-06 at the Aligarh Muslim University as a Senior Fellow in History (ICHR). Dr. Verma, a practising artist as well, is the recipient of two prestigious awards of the Indian Academy of Fine Arts, Amritsar (1981) and the Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata (1982). Currently, Dr. Verma, an Emeritus Fellow in History at Aligarh Muslim University, is working on the project ?Biblical Themes in Indian Art? and the present volume Crossing Cultural Frontiers: Biblical Themes in Mughal Painting (2011) is its outcome.