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Mamta Dwivedi

Portrait of Mamta   Dwivedi

Mamta Dwivedi is a post-doctoral researcher at Freiburg University, specialized in Early Historic South Asia, Numismatics and Religion.

Her PhD dissertation in 2011 was ​‘Yaudheya Coins: Exploring Numismatics as a Source of History (c. 300 B.C. to c. A.D 300.)’ (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 2011).

As a researcher specializing in ​‘ritual economies’ of the past, Mamta Dwivedi is associated to the ERC (European Research Center) program ​‘Beyond the Silk Road’ (BaSaR). 

Publications

  • ‘Colonial imagination and identity attribution: Numismatic cues for defining space’, in H.P. Ray (ed.), Negotiating Cultural Identity: Landscapes in Early Medieval South Asian History, New Delhi, Routledge, 2015
  • ‘Early Historic South Asia: Geography, Climate, and the Human Landscape’, De Gruyter Open Resource, 2020
  • The Handbook of Ancient Afro-Eurasian Economies, De Gruyter Oldenbourg, contributions in vol 2 (2019) and 3 (2023).