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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). After her postdoctoral involvment with Freiburg University, Germany, she joined the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in 2023.

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).