Saarthak Singh

Articles / Book chapters

2025 "Urbanisme médiéval et écologie culturelle : au fil de l'eau en Inde centrale au XIème siècle", in La gestion de l'eau dans les civilisations de l'Asie, actes du colloque de la Societé Asiatique, ed. J-M. Mouton, Paris: Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, pp. 303-334.

2025 "Architecture in India During the Sultanate Period", Oxford Bibliographies in Art History, ed. Basile Baudez, New York: Oxford University Press. doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199920105-0190

2025 (with Michael Willis), "Perceptions and Products of the Forested Highlands: A View from the Malwa Sultan’s Book of Delicacies, circa 1500", South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 48/2, numéro spécial, South Asian Forest-dwellers and the Making of World Civilisation, ed. Daniela de Simone and Sunil Gupta, pp. 1-24. doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2025.2484117

2025 (with Muntazir Ali, Vishwa Mohan Jha et Michael Willis), "The Sufi Shrine at Dhār in Central India: Documents for an Economic and Institutional History", Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 3rd Series, 35/2, pp. 1-19. doi.org/10.1017/S1356186324000312

2023 "Rethinking the Regional in Rājamatī’s World: Placemaking, Patronage and the Performance of Polity, 1479," South Asian Studies 39/2, special issue, Ayesha Sheth and Daud Ali (eds.), Rethinking Regional Polity in North India and the Deccan, 14th-16th Centuries, pp. 186-206.

2023 "The Place of Pilgrimage in Talismanic Shirts from the Islamic World," in Qaisra M. Khan and Nahla Nassar (eds.), The Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage: Essays in Honour of Nasser David Khalili, I, London: Gingko Library, pp. 307-321.

2023 "A Talismanic Tunic with Images of Mecca and Medina: Pilgrimage, Place and the Body in Islamic ‘Gunpowder Empires’," in Serpil Bağcı (ed.), International Congress of Turkish Art 16 / 16. Uluslararası Türk Sanatları Kongresi, Istanbul: TC Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı, pp. 761-777.

2022 "A Serpentine Scimitar of Letters from Udaypur, District Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh," Journal of the Epigraphical Society of India 47, pp. 115-119.

2022 (with Johan Levillain), "Monumentality, Seriality and Social Intervention: Sculptures from an 11th-century Workshop at Sunari in Eastern Malwa," Arts Asiatiques 77, pp. 41-69. 

2022 (with Razieh Koshtely, Vafa Movahedian, Muntazir Ali and Michael Willis), "Translation and State," Translation and State: The Mahābhārata at the Mughal Court, Berlin: De Gruyter, 1-66.

2022 (with Razieh Koshtely and Michael Willis), "Writing, Reading, Wondering," Translation and State: The Mahābhārata at the Mughal Court, Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 123-158.

2022 "Viewing the World from Coastal South India on a Seventeenth-century Wall Hanging," Convergence: Africa, Americas, Asia, Oceania 2, pp. 66-79.

2022 "The Project of Independence: Architectures of Decolonization in South Asia, 1947–1985," Museum of Modern Art (New York), February 20 – July 2, 2022, exhibition review, Historians of Islamic Art Association Newsletter, pp. 3-4.

2022 "Hum Sub Sahmat," Jawahar Bhawan (New Delhi), July 2 – August 16, 2022, review of exhibition by Sahmat Trust for the 75 years of India's independence, July 10, 2022, Scroll.in.

2020 "The Place of Performance in a Landscape of Conquest: Mansingh’s akhārā at Gwalior", South Asian History and Culture 11/1, pp. 78-109.