PROFESOR PRAMOD CHANDRA spent the first 12 years of his career at the Prince of Wales Museum, Mumbai. He then moved to the university of Chicago, where he founded and was the first director of the American Academy of  Benares, now the Center for Art and Archaeology of the American Institute of Indian Studies at Gurgaon and the American Committee for South Asian Art of which he was the President for several years. From 1989-2004, he held the Bickford Chair for Indian and South Asian art at Harvard University. He is presently Bickford Research Professor of Indian and South Asian art at Harvard.

He has represented the Indian Government in the Joint Museums Committee of Indo-U.S. and was the Guest Curator, Exhibition of Indian Sculpture at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Honorary Advisor for Archaeology and Museums, Govt. of Madhya Pradesh, and Distinguished Visiting Professor, National Museum Institute, 2004-5.

Professor Pramod Chandra's scholarly range extends over architecture, sculpture and painting. He was the founder of the Indian Temple Architecture Project of the American Institute of Indian Studies which has continued publishing a series of weighty volumes to the present day, has made notable contributions to the study of early Indian and Gupta sculpture, and made significant advances in tracing the origins of Mughal painting and the development of popular Mughal art. His many pupils are distinguished scholars in their own right today.