Biography Part of the University of Oxford, its work was to 'foster and facilitate Indian studies at the University, the work of making Englishmen, and even Indians themselves, appreciate better than they have done before the languages, literature and industries of India'. [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 04/05/2007]
Biography References http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/resources/building.htm / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Institute
County No counties listed
Relationship Other Owner / PRM Source
Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography Photographs
Collected around 1932 / 1980
Dates active ?1883 to present
Donated around 1932 / 1988
English collections Working model of the Shrewsbury Pannier Monorail System, chisels, photographs
Institution Yes
Oxford based Yes
English collection size 20
Connections Simon Lawson / Forestry Department University of Oxford / Forestry Commission