Dr. Kanika Kishore Saxena

Books/Monographs:

  • Saxena, K. K. (2021) Before Kṛṣṇa: Religious Diversity in Ancient Mathura. New Delhi: Oxford University Press (ISBN: 0-19-012790-2).

Papers in Journals (National/International)

  • Kishore, K. 2016. ‘The Āyāgapaṭas of Mathura’ Art of the Orient, 2016, Vol. 5 (ISSN 2299-811X).
  • Kishore, K. 2015. Symbol and Image Worship in Jainism: The Āyāgapaṭas of Mathura’ Indian Historical Review, June 2015, Vol. 42, No.1 (ISSN: 0376-9836).
  • Kishore, K. (2015) ‘Harṣacarita’ published in Indian Horizons (ICCR publication), Vol. 62, No.5; October-December 2015 (Regd No. 14377/57).

Book Reviews in Journal (National/International)

  • Saxena, K. K. (2019) Review of Smita Sahgal’s Niyoga Alternative Mechanism to Lineage Perpetuation in Early India A Socio-Historical Enquiry, 2017 published in Social Scientist, May-June 2019, Vol. 47, No.5-6 (ISSN: 0970-0293).
  • Kishore, K. (2018) Review of Anamika Roy’s Sixty-Four Yoginis Cults, Icons and Goddesses, 2015 published in Indian Historical Review, December 2018, Vol. 45, No.2 (ISSN 0376-9836).

Papers Presented in National/International Conferences

  • Kishore, K. 2015. ‘The Āyāgapaṭas and Śilāpaṭas of Mathura’ in conference on Ancient India at IIT, Gandhinagar in January 2015.
  • Kishore, K. 2014. ‘The Āyāgapaṭas of Mathura’ at workshop on Mathura at the Asian Art Museum, Berlin in April 2014.
  • Kishore, K. 2012 ‘The Jaina Stūpa: A Stūpa Built by the Gods at Mathura’ in History Seminar organized by Delhi University and ICHR in 2012.
  • Kishore, K. 2011 ‘The Āyāgapaṭas and Śilāpaṭas of Mathura’ in History Seminar organized by Delhi University and ICHR in 2011.
  • Participated in ACCU Invitation Programme for International Educational Exchange of Teachers and Professionals in Japan in 2009.

Deliverance of Talks/Lectures

  • Presentation on Mathura: A Religious Heritage in a Value-added course Culture, Heritage and Law organized by Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies on 14th April 2022.
  • Presentation on Before Kṛṣṇa: Religious Diversity in Ancient Mathura, organized by Department of History, Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University, 18th February, 2021.
  • Delivered a special lecture on Elements of Jaina and Buddhist Iconography in the Department of Archaeology, Cottons University, Guwahati on 3rd September 2021.
  • Delivered a talk in the Spring Semester of Ashoka University on the topic Symbol and image worship in Jainism: Stūpas, Images and Āyāgapaṭas of Mathura on 27th January 2021.

Awards/Fellowships/Grants:

  • Awarded JRF (Junior Research Fellowship) by Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR).
  • Foreign Travel Grant, ICHR
  • President of India (Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma) Gold Medal

Others:

  • Working for the last twenty years for the NGO ‘Hriday-Shan’ (which works towards tobacco-related, alcohol-related, and other lifestyle disorders associated with school and college children) and Public Health Foundation of India and have represented India in several national and international conferences by World Health Organization and the American Public Association.