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In Projects
Q&A: How did you become a curator?

I often receive emails from students and early career scholars in the UK and abroad who are thinking of entering the museum sector in…

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In Hotung Gallery/ Projects
Moved, blown up, restored: the journey of an Asokan Inscription at the British Museum

One of the most important objects in the South Asia collections at the British Museum is also one of the most unassuming. It is…

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In Hotung Gallery
The Bimaran Casket: Representing the Buddha in Human Form

The Bimaran Casket is a small, gold reliquary which bears the earliest datable representation of the Buddha in human form. Earlier portrays of the…

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In Hotung Gallery/ Projects
How to recreate a Gandhara stupa at the British Museum

The first object you encounter when approach the Gandhara section of the Hotung Gallery is a large, beautifully carved preaching Buddha sculpture from Jamalgarhi,…

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In Hotung Gallery/ Projects
Curating the Life of the Buddha at the British Museum

The refurbishment of the Sir Joseph E. Hotung Gallery for China and South Asia was an opportunity to reassess the full scope of the…

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In Hotung Gallery/ Projects
Behind the Scenes at the British Museum: Indo-Roman trade in the Hotung Gallery

The previous incarnation of the South Asia section of the Sir Joseph E Hotung Gallery for China and South Asia was broadly thematic in…

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In Asian Ethnographic Collections/ Projects
From Siberia to London: the Sakha Collections at the British Museum

The British Museum Siberian collections are substantial – numbering some 1400 objects – and they also range widely in terms of material, type, and…

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In Reviews/ Travels & Reviews
Review: Splendours of the Subcontinent, New Walk Museum

The UK-India Year of Culture 2017 has seen many exhibitions held across the UK as part of the year long programme of events celebrating the…

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In Exhibition Photo Galleries/ Travels & Reviews
Whitworth Gallery: South Asia in photos

Raqs Media Collective Raqib Shaw South Asian Modernists Sooni Taraporevala Beyond Borders…

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In Exhibition Photo Galleries/ Travels & Reviews
Manchester Art Gallery: South Asia in photos

The South Asia focused exhibitions at the Manchester Art Gallery from September 2017 onwards coincide with the 70th anniversary of Indian Independence from British colonial…

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