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Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1274/1/2/30
Title:: Karli Caves and a Building
Scope & Content:: The Album folio contains 2 newspaper clippings. The top clipping is of "Karli Caves- The largest Buddhist Chaitya Hall in India". The bottom clipping is of a building with a compound and trees within having a description below as "Established 20-9-1926". Condition of original material: Good Con...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1925-1953
Extent:: 1 TIFF image

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1274/3
Title:: Collections of Nilgiri Documentation Centre (NDC)
Scope & Content:: This collection contains 262 files and 2522 images. NILGIRIS DOCUMENTATION CENTRE (NDC) officially inaugurated by British council Director Mr. Chris Gibson in 2006. This is the only surviving unique collection in this region, and not yet explored by any researchers. 1) Mr. A. Dharmalingam, son o...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English, Not applicable, and Tamil
Date Range:: 1st half of the 20th century
Extent:: 2522 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F645
Title:: Forchhammer Burmese Pali manuscripts and related papers
Scope & Content:: Burmese manuscripts with notes and articles by Emmanuel Forchhammer (1851-1890), German linguist, archaeologist. Professor of Pali at Rangoon Government High School from 1879. Archaeological inspector of British Burma, 1882-1890.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Burmese, English, and German
Date Range:: 1880-1888
Extent:: 27 files

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1401
Title:: Libraries and Manuscripts of Laos. Photographer(s): Berger, Hans Georg
Scope & Content:: A portfolio of photographs documenting traditional libraries, scribes, objects linked to manuscript writing and storage, the revival of the teaching of manuscript reading, the discovery and cleaning of palm-leaf manuscripts and manuscripts on sa-paper, as well as Buddhist ceremonies links to man...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1994-2012
Extent:: 63 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1424/1(67)
Title:: Steps up to Temples [Swayambhu Stupa, Kathmandu Valley.] Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
Scope & Content:: View of steps leading to temples. Swayambhu Stupa, Kathmandu Valley: Small chaityas populate the eastern flank of Swayambhu Hill. A small pair of lions guarding a pair of Buddhas mark the beginning of the path to the complex. The Buddhas, lions and chaityas have been refurbished and continue to o...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1888-1892
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1424/1(68)
Title:: [The Vajra (thunderbolt) at the Swayambhu Stupa, Kathmandu Valley.] Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
Scope & Content:: View of a scuplture, Vajra (thunderbolt) at the Swayambhu Stupa, Kathmandu Valley, viewed from the north across the top of the staircase down the eastern flank of the hill to the valley floor below. The top of the stairs is immediately to the left of the Vajra and its guardian lion. A second lion...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1888-1892
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1424/3(12)
Title:: [The Vajra (thunderbolt) at Swayambhu, Kathmandu.] Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
Scope & Content:: View of Vajra (thunderbolt) at Swayambhu, Kathmandu, viewed from the top of the stairs connecting the complex to the valley floor below. The photograph is shot from the north edge of the staircase looking a little south of true east. Immediately behind the Vajra, at the base of the dome of the S...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1888-1892
Extent:: 1 item

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