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80: 136: 256:, assisted by Mr. Long of the Pitt Rivers Museum, and completed in 1898. When Monier-Williams died in 1899, no financial provision had been made for running the museum. Gradually, the collections were dispersed: entomological and zoological collections to the University Museum; and many pieces to the Pitt Rivers Museum and the Ashmolean Museum. A summary catalogue of the museum was prepared by Mr. A. Rost (for a short handbook to the Institute, by Professor 27: 269:
the premises without compensation, and then made a gift of the premises to the History Faculty, which specialises in European history to the exclusion of Indian history. The government of India filed a formal protest on behalf of the families of the original donors, who felt defrauded by the University's actions. The
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The Museum was an integral part of Monier-Williams’ design, modelled to some extent on the India Museum in South Kensington. Monier-Williams acquired some pieces during his fund-raising and collecting tour of India in 1883–1884, including from the International Exhibition, at Calcutta, and arranged
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The building was financed entirely by private donors in India and Britain, for the sole purpose of constructing an edifice to house study for and on the Indian sub-continent. There was consequently great controversy in 1968, when the University's governing council evicted the Indian Institute from
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The work of fostering and facilitating Indian studies in the University; the work of making Englishmen, and even Indians themselves, appreciate better than they have done before the languages, literature and industries of
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A Record of the Establishment of the Indian Institute in the University of Oxford: Being an Account of the Circumstances which led to its Foundation (Oxford: Compiled for the Subscribers to the Indian Institute Fund,
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for regional representatives to send objects to Oxford. Babu T. N. Mukharji was commissioned to catalogue the collections in 1886 (but he never finished doing so). The installation of the museum was done by Dr
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Evison, Gillian, 'The Orientalist, his Institute and the Empire: the rise and subsequent decline of Oxford University's Indian Institute', unpublished paper, December 2004.
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History of the Indian Collections in Indian Art in the Ashmolean Museum: A catalogue of the Ashmolean’s collection of Indian art
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to build an Indian Institute. The original site was occupied by four old buildings. The building was designed by
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Monier Monier Williams, 'Notes of a long life's journey', unpublished memoir, Indian Institute Library, Oxford.
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and the first section opened in 1884. Originally there was a low shop to the south, but neighbouring
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Symonds, Richard, Oxford and Empire: The Last Lost Cause? (New York: St Martins Press, 1986)
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has now encroached on the Institute with a much taller building. The Institute was built of
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went further still, accusing the University administration of racism in the decision.
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Bodleian Library: Department of Oriental Collections: 'Indian Institute Library',
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of the University of Oxford, the History Faculty having moved to the old
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In June 1881, plans were submitted to the University of Oxford's
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The Oxford Chronicle and Berks and Bucks Gazette, 5 May 1883
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observed that the rounded corner cupola made an excellent
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opened in 1886. It became a dependent library of the
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Indian Institute Archives, Bodleian Library, Oxford
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University of Oxford
Monier Monier-Williams
Indian Civil Service
British Raj
Oxford
England
Catte Street
Holywell Street
Broad Street

Hebdomadal Council
Basil Champneys
Hertford College
Taynton stone
English Renaissance
Nikolaus Pevsner
library
lecture rooms
museum
Ashmolean
Pitt Rivers Museums
Oxford Martin School
City of Oxford School
George Street
Indian Institute Library

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