Please join us for a conversation between historians Deepthi Sasidharan and Usha Balakrishnan on what people wore—and what it meant—in princely, Parsi, and Maharashtrian portraits.

From dress codes and adornment to quiet details of self-fashioning, the discussion will uncover how clothing and jewellery signalled identity, ambition, modernity, tradition, and belonging in changing social and political worlds.

Deepthi Sasidharan is an art historian, curator and founder-director at Eka who works on heritage and museum projects across India with the Government, private and corporate clients. 
Dr. Usha R Balakrishnan, the Chief Curator of the World Diamond Museum, is an independent scholar of Indian art & culture and the pre-eminent historian of Indian jewellery.