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“...m SOAS
X University of London
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The Michael Palin Scholar and Dr Alan
Entwistle Digitisation Project
2016-17...”
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“..."Accessibility is key to the dissemination of learning. Through
enabling digitisation of an important collection of images
and film at SOAS, you are ensuring that future generations of
scholars and enthusiasts across the world will be able to
benefit from this unique resource"
Baroness Valerie Amos, SOAS Director
Front cover image: "Vegetable Market" from the Alan Entwistle Collection...”
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“...Michael
Palin Scholarship recipientJoe Pearson Woodand the Alan
Entwistle Digitisation Project, generously funded by you.
Having now been back at SOAS for more than half a year, Joe is
fully immersed in his two-year Master's course in Intensive South
Asian Studies. It is clear from his statement that without the support
that the Michael Palin Scholarship has offered him, he would have
had great difficulty returning to SOAS to further his studies. We are
very pleased with his progress thus far and look forward to keeping
up with his development over the coming months.
The Alan Entwistle Digitisation project is now complete with the
materials published online for all to access and enjoy. Enclosed in
this reportand featuring on the front coverare some of the
images that have been digitized thanks to your donation.
I hope you enjoy reading about Joe's experiences so far as a
postgraduate student at SOAS, and the progress of the Alan
Entwistle Digitisation Project.
Thank you again for your...”
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“...The Alan Entwistle
Digitisation Project
Images above, top to bottom: View of the temples on the hilltop of Barsana; Ferryboat on the Yamuna...”
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“...a small team of local
scholars and enabled a number of young people
to acquire the skills of manuscript
conservation. During the 1970s and 1980s the VRI
project, now supported by the International
Association of the Vrindaban Research Institute,
drew in other SOAS specialists in Hindi, Urdu,
Bengali, Sanskrit and Persian. Several SOAS
students completed Ph.D theses on Vaishnava
Hindu literature that drew on materials at the VRI.
The late Alan W. Entwistie (1949-1996) was one
such student.
The majority of these photographs of Braj were
taken by Alan Entwistie as he led an IAVRI effort to
survey the region. Others were taken by the SOAS
PhD student David Crawford, Gerry Losty of the
British Library, and Paul Fox, the SOAS
photographer. The digitisation programme uses
these images and the descriptions Entwistie wrote
of each image, updated with searchable Hindi and
geographic data. Entwistie went on to build a
career as a scholar and teacher of Hindi language
and literature and Indian c...”
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“...accessing the collection can use the
'MAP IT!' feature and dynamic map to see where
items relate to one another and fit within the
bigger picture.
As a direct result of this project, users could
therefore use the digital images and interactive
map to put their own tour together, guided by the
images and information online.
Students, academics and amateur enthusiasts can
tailor their use of the digitized collection to
support their individual needs.
Brill Publishers, who hold the rights to Alan
Entwistle's monograph, have agreed to place the
monograph in the public domain. This means that
in due course. Dr Entwistle's text and maps will
also be brought to life in the same way.
Finally, a key feature of this collection is language.
Every photo's description records key data in
English and Hindiand some also support Tamil,
Telagu and Urdu.
It was vitally important to us that the collection be
easily searchable and usable by English and non-
English speakers alike. To this end, a fully...”
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“...Three digitised images
from The Dr Alan
Entwistie coliection.
Top: MukutavalT dukan in
LoT Bazaar : a shop seliing
headdresses for deities
Middle: Rath ka Mela : the
chariot
Bottom: Bengal
yogapitha...”
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