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Interview episode, Greco-Indian and Buddhist art of Gandhara with Dr. Osman Boparachi Before we begin our interview, I'd like to let you all know that Dr. Boparachi has generously provided dozens of helpful images

to act as a visual aid for several of the points he brings up during his answers.

I've combined this into a single guide in PDF form, which will be made available to download on both my website

and directly linked in the episode description, just like how I have my transcripts and family trees.

There are some amazing examples of Gendarin and even Indo-Greek art that he provides,

so I strongly encourage you to check those out. Now, let us return back to the show.

Hello everyone. Today I have the pleasure of welcoming to the show Dr. Osmond Boparachi.

Dr. Boparachi is a renowned scholar of South Asian history, archaeology,

and numismatics, currently serving as the Emeritus Director of Research of the French National

Center for Scientific Research, and has worked as a professor at both University of California

Berkeley and the Paris Sorbonne University. The bulk of his research focuses on the history of India, from Alexander until the Kushan Empire,

and he has dozens of publications on the Greco-Bactrians and the Indo-Greeks,

including coin catalogs and a recent work entitled When West Met East, Gendaran Art Revisited.

Today he is joined to talk about his work regarding the

interactions of Greek and Indian art in both Gandhara and the broader region. First off, let me just say,

thank you very much for taking the time to come on the podcast. Thank you so much. Would you like

to give us a bit about your background and what inspired you to dedicate

much of your research to those like the Greco-Bactrians and Indo-Greeks? Yeah, in short, you know,

as you know, I was born in Sri Lanka. I did my preliminary studies there and I did Western

classical culture for my BA degree, which is the Greek and Roman civilization. So before I came to France,

I had the knowledge of Latin and Greek. And then when I came to France, I mean, it was another

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