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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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“...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 support.
Professor...”
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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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“...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 civilisation at the
universities of Groningen and Washington
(Seattle). His principal publication is Braj: Land of
Krishna Pilgrimage (Groningen: Egbert Foster,
1987).
Entwistle's collection sits alongside an expanding
digital archive at SOAS. These efforts...”
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