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The Michael Palin Scholar and Dr Alan
Entwistle Digitisation Project
2016-17...”
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“...Joseph Pearson Wood
Michael Palin Scholar 2016-17 MA Intensive South Asian Studies
The choice of university that I would apply to
for my undergraduate degree was always
obvious.
I've known about SOAS since early 2009 after
visiting to attend a public lecture with my
brother on the colonial impact of land policy in
India.
Being fifteen years old at the time and just
about to start my GCSEs, most of the lecture
was completely alien to me and to say I was
confused would be a huge understatement! I
was however, intrigued nonetheless.
It was this intrigue, both for the university itself
and also for India as an academic subject that
sustained me through both my GCSEs and A-
Levels.
Having grown up in Solihull, just outside of
Birmingham, I was surrounded by many
different diaspora communities, and my interest
in South Asianotably Pakistanstems from
hearing the many different languages and
observing many different cultures from a young
age.
Applying to SOAS therefore seemed like a no-...”
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“...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 are part of a
broader initiative to make the research collections
of previous generations readily available to a global
audience, and, crucially, available to people in the
regions where...”
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