Publications

forthcoming - Chandragupta Maurya: the creation of a national hero in India (UCL Press).

2021 - ‘India and the Himalayas. From the Mauryas to the Palas, the rise and fall of Buddhist art in India’, in Traveller’s Eye: Selected works from the Francisco Capelo Asian collections (forthcoming). This catalogue will accompany the opening of the Casa Asia-Coleção Francisco Capelo in Lisbon, Portugal.

2020 - ‘Buildings with a Message - Experimenting with a Rich Mosaic of Objects and Voices’ in RETHINK Design Guide: Architecture for a post-pandemic world (London: RIBA Publishing, 2020), pp.66-69.

2020 - ‘South Asia’ & ‘Two sides of the coin: from Sophytes to Skanda-Kārttikeya’ in R. Mairs (ed.) The Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek World (London: Routledge,  2020). (peer-reviewed)

2020 - T. Argounova-Low, A.K. Brown & S. Jansari, Model of a Summer Camp (London: British Museum Press, 2020).

2019 - ‘From Geography to Paradoxography: the use, transmission and survival of Megasthenes’ Indica‘ Journal of Ancient History Vol.8:1, pp.26-49. (peer-reviewed)

2019 - ‘Colonial Collecting in Ceylon: Dispersing the Hugh Nevill Collections across the British Isles’, in A.B. Peyton and K.A. Paul (eds.) Arts of South Asia: Cultures of Collecting (Gainesville: University of Florida Press; David A. Cofrin Asian art manuscript series), pp.63-94.  (peer-reviewed)

2018 - ‘The Sophytes coins: from the Punjab to Bactria and back again’, Numismatic Chronicle vol.178, pp.71-98, pl.7-12 - (peer-reviewed)

2018 - Sakha objects at the British Museum: a collection history.

2018 - ‘Jaina Objects at the British Museum’ - Jaina Studies: Newsletter of the Centre of Jaina Studies, March, Issue 13, pp.46-49.

2017 - ‘Jaina material on display in the Hotung Gallery’ - Arts of Asia, vol.47. 

2016 - S. Jansari & R. Ricot, ‘Megasthenes and the Astomoi: a case study into ethnography and paradoxography’, in H. Brinkhaus and J. Wiesehöfer (eds.) Classica et Orientalia (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2016), pp. 85-96. (peer-reviewed)

2014 - ‘Making Myth a Reality’ - British Museum Magazine, Spring/Summer edition, pp.48-51.

2013‘Roman Coins from the Masson and Mackenzie Collections in the British Museum’, South Asian Studies vol.29:2, pp.177-193. (peer-reviewed)

2012 - ‘Roman Coins from the Mackenzie Collection at the British Museum’, Numismatic Chronicle vol.172, pp.93-104. (peer-reviewed)

2011 - ‘Annals of Human Genetics Archive, UCL’, Genetics and Medicine Historical Network Newsletter no.15, November, p.3.