Publications

Books

2023Chandragupta Maurya: the creation of a national hero in India (UCL Press).

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

Book & Exhibition Catalogue Chapters

2021 – ‘I let the pitcher drift away – in R. Mussai & M. Sealy (eds.) Care | Contagion | Community – Self & Other (Autograph: London, 2021), pp.83-84.

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 Asia Collection (London: Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd., 2021), pp.150-161.

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’ in R. Mairs (ed.) The Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek World (London: Routledge,  2020). (peer-reviewed), pp.38-55.

2020 – 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), pp.487-498.

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)

2016S. 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)

Blogposts

2018International Women Collectors’ – British Museum

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

2017S. Jansari & M. Roy, ‘Colin Mackenzie: Collector Extraordinaire’ –  British Library: Asian and African Studies

Journal Articles

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)

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

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

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