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131:"The society desires to promote the study and appreciations of Indian culture in its aesthetic aspects, believing that in Indian sculpture, architecture, and painting, as well as in Indian literature and music, there is a vast unexplored field, the investigation of which will bring about a better understanding of Indian India. Everything will be done to promote the acquisition by the authorities of our national and provincial museums of works representing the best Indian art. The society proposes to publish works showing the best examples of Indian architecture, sculpture, and painting, and hopes to co-operate with all those who have it as their aim to keep alive the traditional arts and handicrafts still existing in India, and to assist in the development of Indian art education on native and traditional lines, and not in imitation of European ideals." 122:, while chairing the Indian Section of the annual meeting of the Royal Society of Arts, had announced that there was no "fine art" in India and had somewhat unwisely responded to the suggestion that a particular statue of the Buddha was an example of fine art: "This senseless similitude, in its immemorial fixed pose, is nothing more than an uninspired brazen image. . . . A boiled suet pudding would serve equally well as a symbol of passionless purity and serenity of soul. This controversy culminated in the, foundation of the India Society, later the Royal India Society, to combat the views of the Birdwoods of this world." (Mark Sedgwick 2004) 350:
After partition, its name was again changed to the Royal India and Pakistan Society, and then again to the Royal India, Pakistan and Ceylon Society. In 1966 it merged with the
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S.V. Turner, "Crafting Connections: The India Society and the Formation of an Imperial Artistic Network in Early Twentieth-Century Britain", in S. Nasta (eds)
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Ajanta Frescoes: being reproductions in colour and monochrome of frescoes in some of the caves at Ajanta, after copies taken ... 1909-1911
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In 1944 the Society was granted permission to become the Royal India Society under the patronage of the Dowager Queen
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Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century
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Eleven Plates. Representing Works of Indian Sculptures Chiefly in English Collections
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Examples of Indian sculpture at the British Museum: twelve collotype plates
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and elsewhere, on the status of Indian art. This had started when Sir
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The India Society was founded in 1910. The earliest members were
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The India Society organised a conference on Indian Art at the
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The Royal India, Pakistan and Ceylon Society (after 1948);
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a book on Mughal Painting, edited by T. W. Arnold and
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The Society's archives (held at the British Library)
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Index

British India Society
London Indian Society
learned society
British India
Partition of India
East India Association
T. W. Rolleston
T. W. Arnold
Leighton Cleather
A. K. Coomaraswamy
Walter Crane
E. B. Havell
Christiana Herringham
Paira Mall
William Rothenstein
George Birdwood
British Empire Exhibition
Rabindranath Tagore
Evelyn Underhill
A. H. Fox Strangways
Christiana Herringham
Henry Cousens
ASI
John Marshall
J. Ph. Vogel
James Cousins
Ram Chandra Kak
A. J. Arberry
Laurence Binyon
Mary of Teck

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