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Introduction: Portraiture in South Asia (2018)
Book Chapter
Branfoot, C. (2018). Introduction: Portraiture in South Asia. In C. Branfoot (Ed.), Portraiture in South Asia since the Mughals: art, representation and history (1-32). I.B. Tauris. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350987579.0006

Review of: Dehejia, Vidya, and Peter Rockwell. The Unfinished: Stone Carvers at Work on the Indian Subcontinent. New Delhi: Roli Books, 2016 (2017)
Journal Article
Branfoot, C. (2017). Review of: Dehejia, Vidya, and Peter Rockwell. The Unfinished: Stone Carvers at Work on the Indian Subcontinent. New Delhi: Roli Books, 2016. The Art Bulletin, 99(3), 170-172. https://doi.org/10.1080/00043079.2017.1337425

Architecture and Cultural Translation on India's Deccan Frontier’ Review of Eaton, Richard M., and Phillip B. Wagoner. Power, Memory, Architecture: Contested Sites on India’s Deccan Plateau, 1300-1600. Oxford University Press, 2013. (2017)
Journal Article
Branfoot, C. (2017). Architecture and Cultural Translation on India's Deccan Frontier’ Review of Eaton, Richard M., and Phillip B. Wagoner. Power, Memory, Architecture: Contested Sites on India’s Deccan Plateau, 1300-1600. Oxford University Press, 2013. Art History, 40(3), 678-680. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8365.12323

Making Space for the Sacred: Hindu Art and Material Religion (2017)
Book Chapter
Branfoot, C. (2017). Making Space for the Sacred: Hindu Art and Material Religion. In G. Bailey (Ed.), Hinduism in India: The Early Period (179-207). Sage

Review of: Tamara I. Sears. Worldly Gurus and Spiritual Kings: Architecture and Asceticism in Medieval India. (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2014). (2016)
Journal Article
Branfoot, C. (2016). Review of: Tamara I. Sears. Worldly Gurus and Spiritual Kings: Architecture and Asceticism in Medieval India. (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2014). Burlington magazine, 158(1354),

Review of: George Michell, Late Temple Architecture in India, 15th to 19th Centuries: Continuities, Revivals, Appropriations, and Innovations. New Delhi: Oxford University Press (2015) (2016)
Journal Article
Branfoot, C. (2016). Review of: George Michell, Late Temple Architecture in India, 15th to 19th Centuries: Continuities, Revivals, Appropriations, and Innovations. New Delhi: Oxford University Press (2015). Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society, 60, 146-148

Continuity and change in contemporary Cheriyal paintings from Telangana, India (2016)
Thesis
Da Fonseca, A. Continuity and change in contemporary Cheriyal paintings from Telangana, India. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

In Andal's Garden: Art, Ornament and Devotion in Srivilliputtur (2015)
Book
Venkatesan, A., & Branfoot, C. (2015). In Andal's Garden: Art, Ornament and Devotion in Srivilliputtur. Marg Publications

Kotai was a 9th-century Tamil Vaishnava poet and mystic, and the author of two poems, the Tiruppavai and Nacciyar Tirumoli. Today, she is worshipped as the goddess Andal or Goda, all across southern India, and her arresting poetry finds expression in... Read More about In Andal's Garden: Art, Ornament and Devotion in Srivilliputtur.

Review: Adam Hardy, translations from Sanskrit by Mattia Salvini. Theory and Practice of Temple Architecture in Medieval India: Bhoja's Samaranganasutradhara and the Bhojpur Line Drawings. New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts and Dev Publishers, 2015. (2015)
Journal Article
Branfoot, C. (2015). Review: Adam Hardy, translations from Sanskrit by Mattia Salvini. Theory and Practice of Temple Architecture in Medieval India: Bhoja's Samaranganasutradhara and the Bhojpur Line Drawings. New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts and Dev Publishers, 2015. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 26(3), 520-522. https://doi.org/10.1017/S135618631500053X

The Tamil gopura: from temple gateway to global icon (2015)
Journal Article
Branfoot, C. (2015). The Tamil gopura: from temple gateway to global icon. Ars orientalis, 45, 78-112

The gopura is a tall pyramidal temple gateway that has been a distinctive feature of South Indian religious architecture for the past millennium. This essay examines the circumstances under which the gopura evolved within the Tamil country during the... Read More about The Tamil gopura: from temple gateway to global icon.

Temple sculpture in colonial Madurai: The reconsecration of the Minakshi-Sundareshvara temple in the 1870s (2015)
Book Chapter
Branfoot, C. (2015). Temple sculpture in colonial Madurai: The reconsecration of the Minakshi-Sundareshvara temple in the 1870s. In A. Verghese, & A. L. Dallapiccola (Eds.), Art, Icon and Architecture in South Asia: Essays in Honour of Devangana Desai (277-292). Aryan Books International

Traditional Arts of South Asia: Continuity in Contemporary Practice and Patronage (2015)
Book
Branfoot, C. (Ed.). (2015). Traditional Arts of South Asia: Continuity in Contemporary Practice and Patronage. Saffron Books

Charles Bell's collection of 'curios' : negotiating Tibetan material culture on the Anglo-Tibetan borderlands (1900-1945) (2014)
Thesis
Martin, E. Charles Bell's collection of 'curios' : negotiating Tibetan material culture on the Anglo-Tibetan borderlands (1900-1945). (Thesis). SOAS, University of London

Captain Linnaeus Tripe: Photographer of India and Burma, 1852-1860 (2014)
Book
Taylor, R., & Branfoot, C. (2014). Captain Linnaeus Tripe: Photographer of India and Burma, 1852-1860. National Gallery of Art and Prestel Publishing

Remaking the past: Tamil sacred landscape and temple renovations (2013)
Journal Article
Branfoot, C. (2013). Remaking the past: Tamil sacred landscape and temple renovations. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 76(1), 21-47. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X12001462

This article explores the repeated renovation of south Indian temples over the past millennium and the conception of the Tamil temple-city. Though the requirement for renovation is unremarkable, some “renovations” have involved the wholesale replacem... Read More about Remaking the past: Tamil sacred landscape and temple renovations.

Review of Archana Verma, 'Temple Imagery from Early Mediaeval Peninsular India' (2012) (2013)
Journal Article
Branfoot, C. (2013). Review of Archana Verma, 'Temple Imagery from Early Mediaeval Peninsular India' (2012). Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 76(3), 534-535. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X13000724

The Great Chola Temples: Tanjavur, Gangaikondacolapuram and Darasuram (2013)
Digital Artefact
Branfoot, C. (2013). The Great Chola Temples: Tanjavur, Gangaikondacolapuram and Darasuram. [Sahapedia]

Imperial Memory: the Vijayanagara Legacy in the Art of the Tamil Nayakas (2013)
Book Chapter
Branfoot, C. (2013). Imperial Memory: the Vijayanagara Legacy in the Art of the Tamil Nayakas. In A. Verghese (Ed.), Krishnadevaraya and His Times (316-344). K R Cama Oriental Institute

Bhatkal's Ramayana Panels (2012)
Book Chapter
Branfoot, C., & Dallapiccola, A. L. (2012). Bhatkal's Ramayana Panels. In G. Michell (Ed.), Kanara, A Land Apart: The Artistic Heritage of Coastal Karnataka (58-65). Marg Publications

Jennifer Howes, Illustrating India: The Early Colonial Investigations of Colin Mackenzie (1784-1821)(2010) (2012)
Journal Article
Branfoot, C. (2012). Jennifer Howes, Illustrating India: The Early Colonial Investigations of Colin Mackenzie (1784-1821)(2010). Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 75(1), 179-181. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X11001042