Annual Allchin Symposium on South Asian Archaeology

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Annual Allchin Symposium on South Asian Archaeology 2-3 December 2016, Cambridge VENUE: The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, & The Ancient India and Iran Trust About the Symposium The Annual Allchin Symposium on South Asian Archaeology was established to commemorate the work of Raymond and Bridget Allchin, and the outstanding contribution that they made to development of South Asian studies in the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom is currently home to the largest community of scholars working on South Asia outside of South Asia itself. Yet, until recently, there has …

Wandering mango tree

AIIT: Michaelmas Term Lecture Programme 2016

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AIIT: Michaelmas Term 2016 Lecture Programme Lectures begin at 5.30pm. Refreshments from 5pm. All welcome. 14 October Special event for Friends of the Trust (Advance booking required: email info@indiran.org) Conor Jameson (RSPB): Save Asia’s Vultures; 21 October Sudeshna Guha (Shiv Nadar University): ‘Nineveh’ in Bombay and histories of Indian Archaeology; 28 October in association with the Cambridge Festival of Ideas Alan Williams (University of Manchester): Migration and the Mango Tree that Walked: the Arrival of Persian Zoroastrians in Eighth-century India. Advance booking required from Cambridge Festival of Ideas; 18 November …

‘The Multimedia Yasna’ Research Project Awarded Grant

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Good news for Zoroastrian and Avesta studies! AIIT trustee Almut Hintze, Zartoshty Brothers Professor of Zoroastrianism at SOAS University of London, has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Investigator Grant of just under €2.5 million (ca. £2 million) for a project on the Yasna, the core ritual of one of the most ancient and influential living religions, Zoroastrianism. The yazishn-gah (‘place of worship’), where the Yasna ritual will be filmed. Andheri Athornan Institute, Mumbai. Photo: Almut Hintze ‘The Multimedia Yasna’ (MUYA) focusses on the interpretation and ritual of …

Unknown Photographer, Portrait of Major-General Linnaeus Tripe (1822-1902), Madras Army, (?)1880s, British Library, Photo 612(1)

Captain Linnaeus Tripe Exhibition at the V&A

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Once heard, the exotically-named Linnaeus Tripe is difficult to forget. Yet even in his own lifetime and certainly in the century and more since his death in 1902, appreciation of one of the most accomplished photographers in 19th-century India has been restricted to a limited circle of photographic and architectural historians. A comprehensive survey exhibition of his work, to which the British Library was a major lender, has been on show at the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York over the …

Raymond Mercier: ‘Calendars in India and a Problem with Eclipses in Orissa’ Lecture

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Reminder: on Friday 18th March 2016, 5.30pm, Raymond Mercier will lecture on ‘Calendars in India and a problem with eclipses in Orissa.’ Scholar and author Raymond Mercier will explain something of the variety of calendars used in mediaeval India. Each calendar counts years from a certain epoch, and while most epoch years have been established there has remained one, that of the Ganga Era of Orissa, that is still to be fixed. This talk is part of the Cambridge Science Festival. Booking advisable but we will endeavour to accommodate all. …