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Publications
Books
Srinivasan, S and Ranganathan, S. 2004. India's legendary wootz steel: an advanced material of the ancient world. Bangalore: NIAS and IISc.
Commissioned by India Foundation for the Arts to write a book on Indian metal crafts.
Sharada Srinivasan, Karnataka, 2004, Arts Research and Documentation.
Research towards a book on the cultural and artistic significance of India's metals heritage, integrating technical, archaeological and art historical perspectives http://198.65.252.136/grantprofiles.asp?tmove=&curpage=2&SearchText=&SearchType
'Textures of wootz: technocultural insights on steel, cast iron and ferrous metals from south Indian antiquity' .
For more details http://www.indianscience.org/projects/t_pr_srinibook2.shtml
Papers
SRINIVASAN, SHARADA 2004. Siva as cosmic dancer: On pallava origins for the Nataraja bronze. World Archaeology 36(3): 432-450. Special Issue on Archaeology of Hinduism
SRINIVASAN, SHARADA. 2004. Chronology and metal sources of South Indian metal icons In Archaeology a History: South Asia, (H P Ray and C Sinopoli eds.), Indian Council for Historical Research and United States Education Foundation in India, pp 219-257.
SRINIVASAN, SHARADA. 2004. The cosmic dance of Siva: an icon of science and beyond In Science and Beyond (S Menon and B V Sreekantan eds.) Bangalore: NIAS, pp 98-105
SRINIVASAN, SHARADA. 2001. Dating the Nataraja dance icon: technical insights. Marg-A Magazine of the Arts 52(4): 54-70.
SRINIVASAN, SHARADA. 1999. Lead isotope and trace element analysis in the study of over a hundred South Indian metal icons. Archaeometry 41(1): 91-116.
SRINIVASAN, SHARADA. 1998. The use of tin and bronze in prehistoric South Indian metallurgy. Journal of Metals, 50(7):44-7, 49.
SRINIVASAN, SHARADA. 1997. Present and past of southern Indian crafts for making mirrors, lamps, bells, vessels, cymbals and gongs: links with prehistoric high tin bronzes from Mohenjodaro, Taxila, South Indian megaliths and later finds. Journal of the Society for South Asian Studies 13. 1997: 209-25.
SRINIVASAN, SHARADA. 1997. "The composition of bronze slags from Kalyadi in South India, and the implications for the problem of tin in South Indian antiquity", in Archaeological Sciences 1995. Proceedings of a conference on the application of scientific techniques to the study of archaeology, Liverpool, July 1995. Oxbow Monograph Series 64. Ed. A. Sinclair, E. Slater, and J. Gowlett, pp.136-42. Oxford: Oxbow books.
SRINIVASAN, SHARADA and GLOVER, IAN 1995. Wrought and quenched and cast high-tin bronzes from Kerala state, southern India. Part I. Contemporary manufacture, Part II. Scientific investigations, Part III. Historical dimension. Journal of the Historical Metallurgy Society, 29(2): 69-87.
SRINIVASAN, SHARADA and GRIFFITHS, DAFYDD. 1997. "Crucible steel in South India: Preliminary investigations on crucibles from some newly identified sites", in Material Issues in Art and Archaeology-IV. Symposium held December 3-5, 1996. Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings Series Vol.462. Ed. P. Vandivar, J, Druzik, J. Merkel, and J. Stewart, pp. 111-27. Warrendale: Materials Research Society.
Articles on Internet
SRINIVASAN, SHARADA, 1 April 2007. Rhythm divine Dr Sharada on Nataraja and metaphysics
SRINIVASAN, SHARADA, 1 Feb 2007 Simply Bangalore
SRINIVASAN, SHARADA, 13 July 2003, 'Heritage: Simmering Cauldrons', The Hindu: Sunday Mag., p. 6. http://www.hinduonnet.com/mag/2003/07/13/stories/2003071300200600.htm
SRINIVASAN, SHARADA, Feb 5 2002. 'Nataraja reveals cosmic secrets', Speaking Tree, Times of India. http://spirituality.indiatimes.com/
SRINIVASAN SHARADA, 22 June 2003, 'Heritage: The Nataraja catapulted onto the global stage form sacred environs', The Week, Vol. 21, No. 29: 60-2. http://www.the-week.com/23jun22/life2.htm
SRINIVASAN, SHARADA and RANGANATHAN, SRINIVASA. 1997. "Wootz steel: an advanced material of the ancient world", in Iron & Steel Heritage of India. Ed. S. Ranganathan, pp. 69-82. Jamshedpur: Indian Institute of Metals & Tata Steel. http://materials.iisc.ernet.in/~wootz/heritage/WOOTZ.htm
SRINIVASAN, SHARADA and RANGANATHAN, SRINIVASA. 1997. "Metallurgical Heritage of India",.in Golden Jubilee Souvenir, Indian Institute of Science, pp. 29-36. Bangalore: Indian Institute of Science. http://www.met.iisc.ernet.in/heritage.html
SRINIVASAN, SHARADA. 2004. Heritage: Kerala's mirror gets patent protection. The Week Sept 12, 66-8.
http://www.the-week.com/24sept12/currentevents_article3.htm
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