Naman is a curator of Indian art, Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University and Co-Editor of Marg Publications. His studies on ancient terracottas and other small finds have drawn attention to the foundations of Indian visual culture and led to various publications and curatorial projects that explore the aesthetics of Indian iconography, transculturalism in antiquity, as well as the historiography of the Arts and Crafts Movement. His latest book, ‘Art and Archaeology of Ancient India: Earliest Times to the Sixth Century’, presents a comprehensive catalogue of the collections of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.