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“...m SOAS
X University of London
------100 Years-
The Michael Palin Scholar and Dr Alan
Entwistle Digitisation Project
2016-17...”
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“...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 Edward Simpson...”
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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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“...Bringing the Entwistie
Collection to life
The From the Land of Braj, Centre of Krishna
pilgrimage is a collection of photographs created
as a part of a SOAS-led project with
the International Association of the Vrindaban
Research Institute (IAVRI) between January 1976
and March 1978.
In the early 16th century the groves of Vrindaban
on the banks of the Yamuna River are said to have
been identified by the Bengali saint Chaitanya
Mahaprabhu as the place where Krishna dallied
and frolicked with the gopis, the local cowherd
girls, especially his favourite, Radha.
Vrindaban has been a pilgrimage town dedicated
to the worship of Krishna ever since, and the
surrounding area, known as Braj, contains many
sites associated with his life. During the 16th-17th
centuries Braj provided the location for a great
renaissance of devotional Hinduism. This
produced a huge body of religious literature, much
of it composed in the local dialect of Hindi, Braj
Bhasa.
The nearby town of Hathras was the birthplace...”
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“...millimetre films
dating from the 1970s from the same project,
which we are processing in the same way.
Adrian visited the site in questionVrindaban
earlier in the year, armed with a set of images for
which we lacked captions or descriptions, and
consulted scholars there.
Update from Erich Kesse, Digital Library
Project Officer
The full Entwistle collection narrative now resides
online and can be accessed by visiting this web
page: http://digital.soas.ac.uk/braj/
Items can be searched by topic, geographic area,
type, or key word, or browsed on the interactive
map that has been developed.
This map interface has been developed so each
item can be contextualised and placed
geographically in the area. Each digitised item has
a unique geographic reference.
Any user 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...”
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