Dr. Anamika Pathak
Chairperson (TCRC)
Former Curator, Decorative Arts and Textiles, National Museum, Janpath, New Delhi-11
Residence Address: C-II-B, 12B, Janakpuri, New Delhi-58
Masters in Buddhist Studies and Ancient Indian History and Culture, Ph.D., in Mughal Costumes, Museum Management Course from Art Institute Chicago
More than three decades of curatorial career at National Museum she has curatored three permanent {Indian Textile (1996), Wood Carving (2012) Decorative Arts, (2013)} and number of temporary exhibitions, few are-‘The Art of Calligraphy and Beyond (2015) ‘Rama-Abhirama: The Beauty of Rama in Indian Art and Tradition’,(2017-18) Headgear Tradition of India (2018). Baluchar: The Woven Narrative Silks of Bengal (2019). Extensively travelled with several prestigious exhibitions like ‘Nizam’s Jewels’ (Delhi & Hyderabad 2001 & 2006), ‘Alamkara’ (Singapore 1994) ‘The Word is Sacred and Sacred is the Word’ (Germany 1998) are the named few.
Closely associated with several academic and cultural institutes (named as National Museum Institute of History of Art, Conservation and Museology; Archaeological Survey of India; Lady Erwin College, Delhi University; National Institute of Fashion Technology, Delhi; Indian Institute of Crafts and Design, Jaipur; Dayalbagh University, Agra etc.) Actively involved in delivering lectures on various aspects of Indian Traditional Textiles, Decorative Arts, Museology and Preventive Conservation etc.
She has presented research papers in several national and international seminars. The recent one was at India Heritage Centre, Singapore on ‘Sacred Textiles-its tradition and variations, in 2018 and at National Museum ‘Woven Words: Its Styles and Variations in Traditional Indian Textiles’ in 2019.
Books to her credit are (‘Pashmina’(2003); ‘Indian Costumes’ (2006) by Roli Publications, ‘Arts of Calligraphy and beyond’ (2015); ‘Rama-Hanuman: some selected episode from Ramayana’(in Hindi) (2016) ‘Ramayana: the Poetic Expression on Temple hanging’ (2017) by National Museum, New Delhi. Co-editor of books, ‘Splendors of Pahari Embroidery’ (2018) published by B.R. Publications, New Delhi and ‘Textiles: The binding threads between the Cultures’ (2019) by The National Museum, New Delhi. Booklets on Indian Textiles (1996) and portfolio (2013) were published by National Museum, New Delhi. More than forty research articles have been published in research articles in books and journal -Purattava (1988-89); Arts of Asia (1999), National Museum bulletin, New Delhi (2002), Marg (2004), National Museum bulletin Prague (2006), Indian National Science Academy Journal (2016), Kala (2018), Reflections on Mughal Art & Culture (2021), Royal Textiles of Mewar: The City Palace Museum, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India (2021).
Founder member of academic association named as Textiles and Clothing Research Centre (TCRC) in 2017. Working as Chairperson, actively involved in organizing three seminars, four public lectures, six online webinar, three workshops, six e-journals and a book publication in the time span of three years.