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Karmakar, Rupsa and Srinivasan, Sharada (2026) Craft Ecology: Traditional Ironworking in the Chotanagpur Plateau and The Impact of Industrial Mining and Environmental Change. New Literaria-An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 7 (2). pp. 51-62.
Srinivasan, Sharada (2025) Coastal Tamil urn burial sites and Harappan links: Wrought in iron? Sasanam Journal, 11. pp. 23-26.
Srinivasan, Sharada (2025) Iron Age Tamil Nadu a Harappan legacy?: AMS dates and XRF on early iron, high-tin bronze, gold and high-carbon steel. Journal of Conservation of Cultural Property in India, 43 (Sep25). pp. 12-20.
Srinivasan, Sharada (2025) Tamil Nadu’s discoveries rewrite the Iron Age timeline and South India’s past. Frontline, 42 (4). pp. 10-20.
Srinivasan, Sharada (2021) Goddess worship and the dancing form: exploring ritual in Indian prehistory and south Indian antiquity. Lietuvos archeologija, 47. pp. 145-166.
Srinivasan, Sharada (2019) Book Review of "Early Indian Metallurgy: The Production of Lead, Silver and Zinc through Three Millennia in North West India" by P T Craddock, K T M Hegde, L K Gurjar and L Willies. London: Archetype Publications Ltd, 2017. Indian Journal of History of Science, 54 (3). pp. 376-378.
Haricharan, Smriti and Nalini, NS and Srinivasan, Sharada and Ranganathan, S (2019) A landscape analysis of fortification in Tamil Nadu using satellite images. Heritage: Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies in Archaeology, 7. pp. 195-210.
Udaya Kumar, S and Srinivasan, Sharada (2018) Traditional Techniques of Gold Jewellery: A Case Study of Devakottai,Tamil Nadu. Journal of the Centre for Heritage Studies, 1. pp. 313-320.
Srinivasan, Sharada (2017) Copper Smelting Slags at Ingaldhal Mines, Karnataka: Early Historic Satavahana Links. Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals, 70 (2). pp. 541-546. ISSN Springer
Srinivasan, Sharada (2017) Iron Age Beta (23% tin) Bronze: Peninsular Indian Bowls of Adichanallur, Nilgiris, and Boregaon. Materials and Manufacturing Processes.
Srinivasan, Sharada (2017) Ultrahigh-carbon "wootz' from Crucible Carburization of Molten Iron: Hypereutectoid Steel from "Tamil Nadu Process" at Mel-siruvalur. Materials and Manufacturing Processes.
Srinivasan, Sharada (2017) Ultrahigh-carbon “wootz” from crucible carburization of molten iron: Hypereutectoid steel from “Tamil Nadu Process” at Mel-siruvalur. Materials and Manufacturing Processes, 32 (7-8). pp. 909-915.
Haricharan, Smriti and Nagabhushana, and Srinivasan, Sharada and Rajani, MB and Ranganathan, S (2016) Locating iron production sites in Telangana, India using satellite imagery. Current Science, 111 (9). pp. 1536-1543. ISSN 0011-3891
Srinivasan, Sharada (2016) Tamil Chola Bronzes and Swamimalai Legacy: Metal Sources and Archaeotechnology. JOM: The Journal of The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS), 68 (8). pp. 2207-2221. ISSN 1543-1851
Srinivasan, Sharada (2016) Indian High-Tin Bronzes and the Grecian and Persian World. Indian Journal of History of Science, 51 (4). pp. 601-612. ISSN 0019-5235
Srinivasan, Sharada (2016) Metallurgy of zinc, high-tin bronze and gold in Indian antiquity: Methodological aspects. Indian Journal of History of Science, 51 (1). pp. 22-32. ISSN 0019-5235
Juleff, Gillian and Jaikishan, Sriperumbudur and Srinivasan, Sharada and Ranganathan, S and Gilmour, Brian (2014) Northern Telangana, an Iron and Crucible Steel Production Landscape in India. ISIJ International, 54 (5). pp. 1030-1037. ISSN 0915-1559
Nagae, Takekazu and Srinivasan, Sharada and Ranganathan, S and Pillai, RM and Shimizu, Yasuji and Mifune, Haruhisa (2014) Thermographical Analysis of Continuing Tradition of Mirror Casting in Kerala. ISIJ International, 54 (5). pp. 1172-1176. ISSN 0915-1559
Srinivasan, Sharada (2013) Megalithic and continuing peninsular high-tin binary bronzes: Possible roots in Harappan binary bronze usage? Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals, 66 (5-6). pp. 731-737. ISSN 0975-1645
Srinivasan, Sharada (2013) Megalithic and surviving binary high-tin bronze traditions in southern India: Tracing binary bronze usage to Harappan times. Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals, 66 (5-6). pp. 731-737.
Srinivasan, Sharada (2012) Swamimalai bronze casting: Chola traditions and changing parameters. Camp - ISIJ, 25. pp. 816-820.
Srinivasan, Sharada (2011) Jain bronzes in Karnataka: some art historical and technical aspects. IUP Journal of History and Culture, 5 (2). pp. 2-9. ISSN 0016-4437
Srinivasan, Sharada and Glover, Ian (2007) Skilled mirror craft of intermetallic delta high-tin bronze (Cu31Sn8, 32.6% tin) from Aranmula, Kerala. Current Science, 93 (1). pp. 35-40. ISSN 0011-3891
Srinivasan, Sharada (2007) Cosmic dance. India International Centre Quarterly, 34 (2). pp. 126-137. ISSN 0376-9771
Srinivasan, Sharada (2007) On Higher Carbon and Crucible Steels in Southern India: Further Insights from Mel-siruvalur, Kodumanal and Pattinam. Indian Journal of History of Science, 42 (4). pp. 673-695. ISSN 0019-5235
Srinivasan, Sharada (2006) Art and Science of Chola Bronzes. Orientations, 37 (8). pp. 46-55.
Srinivasan, Sharada (2006) Megalithic high-tin bronzes: Ethnoarchaeological and archaeometallurgical insights on manufacture and possible artistic and musical significance. Man and Environment, XXXI (2). pp. 1-8. ISSN 0258-0446
Srinivasan, Sharada (2004) Shiva as 'cosmic dancer':on Pallava origins of the Nataraja bronze. World Archaeology, 36 (3). pp. 432-450. ISSN 1470-1375
Srinivasan, Sharada (2001) Dating the Nataraja dance icon: Technical insights. Marg-A Magazine of the Arts, 52 (4). pp. 54-69. ISSN 0972-1444
Srinivasan, Sharada (1999) Lead isotope and trace element analysis in the study of over a hundred South Indian metal icons. Archaeometry, 41 (1). pp. 91-116. ISSN 1475-4754
Srinivasan, Sharada (1998) The use of tin and bronze in prehistoric South Indian metallurgy. JOM: The Journal of Minerals, Metals, 50 (7). pp. 44-49. ISSN 1047-4838
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. pp. 209-225.
Srinivasan, Sharada and Glover, Ian (1995) Wrought and quenched, and cast high-tin bronzes to Kerala State, India. The Journal of the Historical Metallurgy Society, 29 (2). pp. 69-87. ISSN 0142-3304 (online)
Srinivasan, Sharada (2025) Pallava Nataraja Iconography and Cosmic Dance: Explorations of Stellar Connections to Orion and Syrius. In: Glimpses of Art and Archaeology of India and South Asia Felicitation Volume of Padmashri K K Muhammed edited by Githa U Badikillaya and O P Pandey. Bharati Prakashan, pp. 16-22.
Srinivasan, Sharada (2024) Wootz Damascus Steel and Evidence from South Indian Antiquity. In: Svastik Stories: Indian Traditional Knowledge Through the Lens of Science. CSIR-NIScPR Publication, pp. 6-12.
Srinivasan, Sharada (2024) Scientific Validation of Skilled Aranmula Metal Mirror Craft Techniques. In: Communication and Dissemination if Traditional Knowledge. CSIR-NiScPR Publicaton, New Delhi, pp. 30-33. ISBN 9788196761233
Srinivasan, Sharada (2024) Early Finds of Forged Bronze and High-tin Bronze from Tamil Nadu and India. In: Proceedings of the 2nd International Seminar on Recent Advances in Archaeological Investigations of South India. Roja Muthiah Library & Government of Tamil Nadu, Chennai, pp. 78-89.
Srinivasan, Sharada (2023) Ancient Nilgiri Metallurgy. In: The Nilgiri Hills: A Kaleidoscope of People, Culture, and Nature. Orient BlackSwan. ISBN 9789354423963
Srinivasan, Sharada (2023) Indian metals heritage and some common damages. In: Kalyana Mitra: A Treasure House of History, Culture and Archaeological Studies. Bluerose Publishers, pp. 645-660.
Srinivasan, Sharada (2023) Metal Mirror Marvel From Aranmula, Kerala:A Rare Specular Delta Bronze Craft. In: SVASTIK Stories: Indian Traditional Knowledge Through the Lens of Science (Vol.1). CSIR-NiScPR, pp. 8-11. ISBN 978-81-7236-387-1
Srinivasan, Sharada (2023) Ramayana Bronzes and Sculptures from the Chola to Vijayanagara Times. In: The Multivalence of an Epic: Retelling the Rāmāyaṇa in South India and Southeast Asia. Routledge, London. ISBN 9781003456797
Srinivasan, Sharada (2021) Indian Metallurgical Heritage and Archaeometallurgical approaches. In: INTACH Conservation Insight Lectures. INTACH, New Delhi, pp. 68-82. ISBN 9788195473106
Srinivasan, Sharada (2021) Metal Mirror Marvel of Aranmula. In: Sahapedia online cultural encyclopaedia. Sahapedia.
Mallik, Anupama and Chaudhury, Santanu and Chandru, Vijay and Srinivasan, Sharada (2017) Indian Digital Heritage: The Next Steps. In: Digital Hampi: Preserving Indian Cultural Heritage. Springer, Singapore, pp. 393-403. ISBN 9789811057373
Chaudhury, Santanu and Mallik, Anupama and Chandru, Vijay and Srinivasan, Sharada (2017) Introduction. In: Digital Hampi: Preserving Indian Cultural Heritage. Springer, Singapore, pp. 3-10. ISBN 9789811057373
Srinivasan, Sharada and Sengupta, Rajarshi and Padhmapriya, S and Johnson, Praveen and Kritika, Uma and Ranganathan, S and Thakur, Pallavi (2017) Vijayanagara Era Narasimha Bronzes and Sculpture: Digital Iconometry. In: Digital Hampi: Preserving Indian Cultural Heritage. Springer, Singapore, pp. 173-187. ISBN 9789811057373
Srinivasan, Sharada (2016) From Temple to Mantelpiece: Changing Paradigms in the Art and Craft of South Indian Metal Icons. In: Traditional Arts of South Asia: Continuity in Contemporary Practice and Patronage. Saffron Asian Art & Society Series . Saffron Books, London, UK, pp. 125-147. ISBN 9781872843322
Srinivasan, Sharada (2016) Nataraja, Natesa and Orion: Archaeometallurgical and Archaeoastronomical insights into Dancing Siva Images. In: Iconography of the Hindus, Buddhists and Jains: Proceedings of the National Conference. C P R Publications, Chennai, pp. 265-285.
Srinivasan, Sharada (2016) Techniques of Bronze Casting. In: Ecstacy of Classical Art: Indian Bronzes. National Museum Collection, National Museum, New Delhi, pp. 20-36.
Srinivasan, Sharada (2015) Bronze image casting in Tanjavur District, Tamil Nadu: Ethnoarchaeological and archaeometallurgical insights. In: Metals and Civilisations: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Beginning of Use of Metals and Alloys, BUMA-VII. National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru, pp. 215-222. ISBN 9789383566112
Srinivasan, Sharada (2015) Elements of Shiva’s dance: Fingerprinting of Chola bronzes and the rietberg Nataraja. In: New Research on Ancient Bronzes: Acta of the XVIIIth International Congress on Ancient Bronzes. Zurich Studies in Archaeology, pp. 317-325. ISBN 978-3-0340-1272-0
Srinivasan, Sharada (2014) Aesthetics and the foundations of science: Insights from Indian metallurgical traditions. In: Foundations of Sciences, Vol XIII Part 5 of History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization. PHISPC-COMSSAVY (D P Chattopadhyaya Gen Ed.), XIII . Pearson, Delhi, pp. 209-254. ISBN 978-81-317-3097-3
Srinivasan, Sharada (2014) Iconographic trends in Rama worship: Insights from techno-cultural studies of bronzes. In: The Ramayana in literature society and the arts. CP Ramaswamy Aiyar Institute of Indological Research, Chennai, pp. 345-362. ISBN 978-81-90830560
Srinivasan, Sharada (2013) Indian iron and steel, with special reference to southern India. In: The World of Iron. Archetype Publications, London, pp. 83-90. ISBN 9781904982975
Srinivasan, Sharada (2013) Techno-cultural perspectives on medieval Southeast Asia and Southern India: Pallava bronzes and beyond. In: Materializing Southeast Asia's Past: Selected Papers from the 12th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists. NUS Press, Singapore, pp. 167-178. ISBN 978-9971-69-655-9
Srinivasan, Sharada (2012) Carving a global icon: The Nataraja bronze and Commaraswamy's legacy. In: Asian art and culture: A research volume in honour of Ananda Coomaraswamy. Department of Information, Government of Sri Lanka, Colombo, pp. 245-256. ISBN 978-955-9044-99-4
Srinivasan, Sharada (2012) Harappan continuity of high tin copper in South Asia. In: Science and metal technology of Harappans. Kaveri Books, New Delhi, pp. 179-193. ISBN 978-81-7479-107-8
Srinivasan, Sharada (2012) Minerals and metals heritiage of India. In: XXVI International Mineral Processing Congress IMPC 2012 Souvenir. IMPC, New Delhi, pp. 41-51.
Srinivasan, Sharada and Ranganathan, S and Anderson, JC and Suwas, S (2011) From the macroscopic to the microscopic: some scientific insights. In: Pioneering Metallurgy: Origins of iron and steel making in the Southern Indian subcontinent: Telangana Field Survey, Interim Report 2011. UKIERI, NIAS and Exeter University, pp. 29-31. ISBN 9788187663539
Srinivasan, Sharada (2011) Nataraja and cosmic space: Nature and culture intertwinings in the early Tamil tradition. In: Nature and Culture. History of Science, Philosophy and Cultural in Indian Civilization / D P Chattopadhyaya Gen. Ed., XIV Part I . PHISPC and CSC, New Delhi, pp. 271-288. ISBN 81-87586-49-4
Srinivasan, Sharada and Ranganathan, S (2011) The significance of wootz steel to the history of materials science. In: Pioneering Metallurgy: Origins of iron and steel making in the Southern Indian subcontinent: Telangana Field Survey, Interim Report 2011. UKIERI, NIAS and Exeter University, pp. 1-3. ISBN 9788187663539
Ranganathan, S and Srinivasan, Sharada and Glover, Ian (2010) Indian high-tin bronzes: A continuing tradition from ancient to modern times. In: Asian high-tin bronzes: Production technology and regional characteristics. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, pp. 201-210.
Srinivasan, Sharada (2010) Megalithic high-tin bronzes and India's living prehistory. In: 50 years of Southeast Asian Archaeology: Essays in honour of Ian Glover. River Books, Bangkok, pp. 239-271. ISBN 9786167339023
Srinivasan, Sharada (2009) Social History of Indian metalcrafts: Some archaeometallurgical and ethnoarchaeological insights. In: A Social History of Early India. PHISPC Series; CSC, II Part 5 . Pearson and Longman, New Delhi, pp. 251-268. ISBN 978-81-317-1958-9
Srinivasan, Sharada and Sinopoli, Carla M and Morrison, Kathleen D and Gopal, Rangaiah and Ranganathan, S (2009) South Indian Iron Age iron and high carbon steel: with reference to Kadebakele and comparative insights from Mel-siruvalur. In: Metallurgy and Civilisation: Eurasia and Beyond. Archetype Books, London, pp. 116-122.
Srinivasan, Sharada (2008) Mirrors: Metal mirrors from India. In: Encyclopedia of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, 2nd ed. Springer Verlag, New York, 1699 -1704. ISBN 9781402045592
Srinivasan, Sharada (1999) Preliminary insights into the provenance of South Indian copper alloys and images using a holistic approach of comparisons of their lead isotopes and chemical composition with slags and ores. In: Metals in antiquity. BAR International Series 792 . Archaeopress, Oxford, pp. 200-210.
Srinivasan, Sharada (1994) High-tin bronze bowl making in Kerala, South India, and its archaeological implications. In: South Asian Archaeology 1993: Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference of the European Association of South Asian Archaeologists held in Helsinki University 5-9 July 1993. SuomalainenTiedeakatemia, Helsinki, pp. 675-705.
Srinivasan, Sharada (2024) Assaying the eight metals of antiquity: Archaeometallurgical perspectives on Indian heritage. Lecture. International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bengaluru.
Srinivasan, Sharada (2024) Report on scientific analysis of metal objects, excavations at Pattaraiperumbudur. Report. Government of Tamil Nadu., Tamil Nadu.
Srinivasan, Sharada (2020) Metal Craft Heritage of Cauvery and Riverine Regions (NIAS/HUM/HSS/U/RR/02/2020). Report. NIAS, Bengaluru.
Srinivasan, Sharada (2019) Casting Nataraja: Techniques of South Indian bronze casting (NIAS /HUM/HSS/U/RR/072/2019). Report. NIAS, Bengaluru.
Srinivasan, Sharada (2018) Chola and Vijayangara Bronzes: Archaeometallurgical mapping of shifting iconographies. Lecture. Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.
Srinivasan, Sharada and Ranganathan, S (2013) Minerals and metals heritage of India (NIAS Backgrounder No. B8-2013). Backgrounder. NIAS, Bangalore.
Juleff, Gillian and Srinivasan, Sharada and Ranganathan, S (2011) Pioneering metallurgy: origins of iron and steel making in the southern Indian subcontinent. Telengana Field Survey. Report. NIAS.
Srinivasan, Sharada (2024) Keynote Lecture on Indian Metals Heritage: Some Archaeometallurgical Insights. In: Souvenir of International Conference on Minerals, Mining and Metallurgy in South Asia: Historical Perspectives, 11-12 January 2024, Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India.
Srinivasan, Sharada and Paranthaman, S and Asaithambi, B and Prasanna, Venkataguru R and Sakthivel, K and Rajan, K and Sivanantham, R and Radha, Suresh and Sundarraj, Madan and Udaya Kumar, S (2023) Investigating early iron finds from Mayiladumparai Tamil Nadu. In: Muthamizh Arignar Kalaignar Centenary National Seminar on 'Reflections on Cultural Development: An Archaeological Perspective' Proceedings, 22-23 Nov 2023, Chennai.
Srinivasan, Sharada (2023) Prospects of early Indian iron and steel: Insights from neolithic-iron age transition at Mayiladumparai, Tamil Nadu. In: International Conference of World of Iron ., November 2023., British Institute of Eastern Africa.
Srinivasan, Sharada (2017) Key metals and alloys in Indian and South Indian antiquity: An archaeometallurgical overview. In: Advances in Construction Materials and Systems: Proceedings of an International Conference (ICACMS), September 3-8, 2017, Chennai.
Srinivasan, Sharada (2015) Metallurgy and mankind in Southeast Asia's past. In: 15th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists, 6 -10 July 2015, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense.
Srinivasan, Sharada (2015) Of faces and phases: High-tin bronze metallurgy and South India and Tamil innovations. In: The IIM NMD ATM 2015 - International Symposium on "Vision 2025 - Global Challenges and Opportunities in Steel Industry" and 69th Annual Technical Meeting of the Indian Institute of Metals, New Horizons in Materials processing and applications, 13-16 November 2015, Hotel Le Meridien, Coimbatore.
Srinivasan, Sharada and Ranganathan, S (2012) Telangana archaeomaterials: analytical perspectives. In: Royal Society and DST India-UK Scientific Seminar on 'Indian iron and steel - developing interdisciplinary applications in archaeometallurgy and geospatial archaeology', March 7-9, 2012, Exeter University, UK.
Srinivasan, Sharada (2012) The Nataraja bronze: Insights on art, technology and philosophy. In: Indian Art and Religion: An Interactive Approach, 21st Session of Indian Art History Congress, 2012, Kolkatta.
Srinivasan, Sharada and Ranganathan, S (2012) Ultra-high carbon steels and high-tin bronzes: Insights into mechanical properties and processing from Indian traditional knowledge. In: ICSMA-16, 16th International Conference on Strength of Materials, Indian Institute of Sceince, Bangalore.
Thakur, Hema and Srinivasan, Sharada and Ranganathan, S and Juleff, Gillian and Gilmour, Brian and Sriperumbudur, Jaikishen (2010) Survey of iron and steel production in Northern Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and typological classification of archaeometallurgical remains. In: Third International Conference of Society of South Asian Archaeology, 20-21 August 2010, University of Kelaniya, Srilanka.
Singh, Tejpal and Singh, Sanjib Kumar and Srinivasan, Sharada (2016) Indian Bronze: Ecstasy of Classical Art. National Museum, New Delhi.
Srinivasan, Sharada and Ranganathan, S (2014) India’s legendary wootz steel: An advanced material of the ancient world. University Press, Hyderabad. ISBN 9788173717215
Srinivasan, Sharada and Ranganathan, S (2004) India's legendary wootz steel: an advanced material of the ancient world. NIAS and IISc, Bangalore.
Srinivasan, Sharada (2020) Metalworking Traditions of Kammalar and Vishwakarma of Southern India (Virtual Book Reading and Lecture). [Video]
Srinivasan, Sharada (2022) Ancient Indian Metallurgy. [Audio]
Srinivasan, Sharada (2021) The saga of the tambura Musical tradition. Deccan Herald, 9 January 2021.
Mahajan, Roli and Srinivasan, Sharada (2020) Art & Technology: Indian Digital Heritage. Culture360 Magazine, 18 May 2020.
Srinivasan, Sharada (2016) Picture this, Copy that: Lack of proper documentation of anitquities has resulted in fakes flooding the international market - Quotes Sharada Srinivasan. The Hindu, 3 August 2016.
Srinivasan, Sharada (2016) One Minute Interview. The Crucible, Historical Metallurgy Society News, 91, Spring 2016. pp 8-9, London, UK.
Srinivasan, Sharada (2013) The art and science of cosmic dance of shiva - the nataraja (Lecture). The Rotator, 22 July 2013.
Srinivasan, Sharada (2003) Heritage - Simmering Cauldrons. The Hindu, Bangalore.
Srinivasan, Sharada (2003) Pali Forgotten. Deccan Herald, Bangalore.
