Karuna Goswamy

Karuna Goswamy is an eminent historian of Indian culture. Formerly Professor of History at the Panjab University, she has distinguished writing to her credit. She is the author of Vaishnavism in the Punjab Hills and Pahari Painting (Chandigarh, 1968); Wall Paintings of Sujanpur Tira (New Delhi, 1971); The Glory of the Great Goddess (Zurich, 1989); Kashmiri Painting: Assimilation and Diffusion, Production and Patronage (Shimla/New Delhi, 1998). Her most recent work is Wondrous Images: Krishna Seen as Shrinath-ji; Pichhwais of the Vallabha Sampradaya in the Collection of the Calico Museum and the Sarabhai Foundation (with B.N. Goswamy), Sarabhai Foundation, Ahmedabad, 2014. Currently, another book of Professor Goswamy is under print from the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla: Diliparanjani: An 18th Century Chronicle from a Hill State.