Shailendra Bhandare
curator.
Shailendra Bhandare is Assistant Keeper, South Asian, and Far-Eastern Numismatics and Paper Money Collections, a Fellow of St. Cross College and a member of the Faculty of Oriental Studies. He started his career as a numismatist with a visiting fellowship at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge. He was then appointed as a post-doctoral fellow of the Society for South Asian Studies, and worked as a curator in the British Museum on the coins of Later Mughals and the Indian Princely States. He was appointed as curator of coins in the Ashmolean Museum in 2002. He was born and brought up in Mumbai, India where he received his first degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences. He holds a Masters degree in History and a Doctorate in Ancient Indian Culture from the University of Mumbai.
From The Art of Money, August 2024
