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

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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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