HISTORY TALK "Cunninghams Lost Treasures" by Dr. Sanjay Garg at Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), 11, Mansingh Road > 5pm on 31st May 2016

Time : 5:00 pm Add to Calendar 31/05/2016 17:00 31/05/2016 18:30 Asia/Kolkata TALK "Cunninghams Lost Treasures" by Dr. Sanjay Garg Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/05/talk-cunninghams-lost-treasures-by-dr.html Lecture Room, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), 11, Mansingh Road, New Delhi - 110001 DD/MM/YYYY

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Event Description : HISTORY TALK "Cunninghams Lost Treasures" by Dr. Sanjay Garg, Deputy Director, National Archives, New Delhi.

SIR ALEXANDER CUNNINGHAM (1814-93) is rightly hailed as the ‘Father of Indian Archaeology.’ As the first Archaeological Surveyor (1861-65), and later as the first Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India (1871-85), he laid the foundations of a systematic and methodical study of the material remains of India’s past.
During his chequered career in India Cunningham amassed an impressive collection of coins and other antiquities. While most of his gold and silver coins were sold to the British
Museum during his own lifetime, it is generally believed that much of his other collection
comprising ‘coins, seals, stone implements and other objects including smaller objects and
relic caskets,’ and more importantly the sculptures from Bharhut, ‘unfortunately went down
to the bottom of the sea as a result of the shipwreck.’ [Abu Imam 1966: 232]
In the light of some hitherto unnoticed archival material, the lecture will revisit the episode
of the loss of SS Indus - the ‘steamer’ belonging to the P&O Shipping Company, which was
wrecked on Sunday, the 8th November 1885, near Trincomalee in Sri Lanka.

Reference:
Abu Imam, 1966. Sir Alexander Cunningham and the Beginnings of Indian Archaeology, (Dacca)

As part of 'Project Mausam' Series.

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