query: who established the indian society of oriental art

pos: Abanindranath Tagore Abanindranath Tagore Abanindranath Tagore CIE (অবনীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর) (7 August 1871 – 5 December 1951) was the principal artist and creator of the "Indian Society of Oriental Art". He was also the first major exponent of Swadeshi values in Indian art, thereby founding the influential Bengal school of art, which led to the development of modern Indian painting He was also a noted writer, particularly for children. Popularly known as 'Aban Thakur', his books "Rajkahini, Budo Angla, Nalak," and "Khirer Putul" are landmarks in Bengali language children's literature. Tagore sought to modernise Mughal and Rajput styles to counter the influence of

pos: Somalal Shah Somalal Shah Somalal Shah (1905–1994) was an Indian painter and art teacher. Born in Kapadvanj and educated in Bombay and Calcutta, he spent three decades painting and teaching art in Bhavnagar in Saurashtra, Gujarat. He was born to a shopkeeper Chunilal and Jekorben on February 14, 1905 in Kapadvanj, Gujarat, India. He studied briefly at Gujarat College in Ahmedabad and Kalavant Karkhana in Baroda. He joined Sir J. J. School of Art, Bombay in 1926. He further studied at Indian Society of Oriental Art, Calcutta established by Abanindranath Tagore. On Ravishankar Raval's advice, he joined Dakshinamurti, an educational institute established

pos: Ernest Binfield Havell of London, "The Studio". In January 1906 he left for England on long leave and finally in 1908, he was removed from the post. Havell worked with Abanindranath Tagore to redefine Indian art education. He established the Indian Society of Oriental Art, which sought to adapt British art education in India so as to reject the previous emphasis placed on European traditions in favour of revivals of native Indian styles of art, in particular the Mughal miniature tradition. He married Angelique Wilhelmina Jacobsen in 1895 at St Giles, London, Middlesex, England. The couple had a daughter, Sonia Joyce Havell in

pos: Abanindranath Tagore Western models of art, as taught in art schools under the British Raj and developed the Indian style of painting, later known as Bengal school of art. Such was the success of Tagore's work that it was eventually accepted and promoted as a national Indian style within British art institutions under the epithet of Indian Society of Oriental Art. Abanindranath Tagore was born in Jorasanko, Calcutta, British India, to Gunendranath Tagore. His grandfather was Girindranath Tagore, the second son of "Prince" Dwarkanath Tagore. He was a member of the distinguished Tagore family, and a nephew of the poet Rabindranath Tagore.

pos: Stella Kramrisch 1924 her first monograph "Essence of Indian art" was published in German, which was reviewed widely in various journals throughout Europe. In the 1920s Kramrisch kept travelling to Vienna to give lectures. Various articles of her colleagues in Vienna appear as English translations in the Journal of the Indian Society of Oriental Art, which Kramrisch edited from 1933 onwards together with Abanindranath Tagore. Her seminal publication "Indian sculpture" (1933) was a profound analysis of Indian sculpture, conceptualized in size and format to function as an actual handbook. After the British left India in 1947, her husband Laszlo Nemenyi opted to

pos: Nirode Mazumdar Nirode Mazumdar Nirode Mazumdar (11 May 1916 – 26 September 1982) was an Indian painter from the first generation of Indian modernists, and a key member of the Calcutta Group. Nirode Mazumdar was the younger brother of renowned Bengali novelist Kamal Kumar Majumdar, their younger sister Shanu Lahiri (1928-2013) was also a noted painter and art educator. Nirode Mazumdar had his first education under Kshitindranath Majumdar, student of Abanindranath Tagore, at the Indian Society of Oriental Art in Calcutta. After he finished his course Mazumdar was awarded the Norman Blount Memorial Award for his artistic skill. Along with the new

pos: Modern Indian painting attributed to an anti-colonial resistance, akin to that of Mahatma Gandhi. One of the early students of Abanindranath Tagore was Nandalal Bose, who subsequently became a teacher and later the Director for art. Nandalal led the school to a position of pre-eminence in the nationalistic ideology now emerging in Indian culture. The Shantiniketan school of thought emphasised that "an aesthetic was also an ethos, that art’s role was more than life-enhancing, it was world-shaping". It established an Indian version of naturalism distinct from the oriental and western schools, one example being the eschewing of oil and easel painting for work

pos: Chintamoni Kar Chintamoni Kar Chintamoni Kar (19 April 1915 – 3 October 2005) was a renowned Indian sculptor. He received civilian awards from the Indian and French governments and won an Olympic silver medal on behalf of Great Britain. Born on 19 April 1915 in Kharagpur, West Bengal, Kar trained at the Indian Society of Oriental Art run by Abanindranath Tagore. He was taught to sculpt by Giridhari Mahapatra and Victor Giovanelli. Kar moved to Paris in 1938 where he studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière before moving back to India. Chintamoni Kar was married to Amina Kar and the

pos: Kazi Abul Kasem during the Language Movement. During his visit to Calcutta, many famous people such as Abanindranath Tagore the creator of "Indian Society of Oriental Art", folklorist Gurusaday Dutt, leading Bengali novelists Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay and many more, who inspired him to chase his dream to become a pathfinder artist. While working in Calcutta, Kasem created quite a few drawing and illustrations of these great people which also brought him to the limelight. In his lifetime, Kasem has created hundreds of pictures, cartoons, and caricatures, a large portion of his arts were published in various famous magazines in Calcutta, also he painted a

neg: Abanindranath Tagore of Krishna in a Mughal-influenced style. After meeting E. B. Havell, Tagore worked with him to revitalise and redefine art teaching at the Calcutta School of art, a project also supported by his brother Gaganendranath, who set up the Indian Society of Oriental Art. Tagore believed in the traditional Indian techniques of painting. His philosophy rejected the "materialistic" art of the west and came back to Indian traditional art forms. He was influenced by the Mughal school of painting as well as Whistler's Aestheticism. In his later works, Tagore started integrating Chinese and Japanese calligraphic traditions into his style. Tagore

neg: Damerla Rama Rao Bhangam" and "Turpu Kanumallo Godavari" to the exhibition organised by the Oriental Society. The Viceroy of India award was conferred to Rama Rao for his former painting and the latter was purchased by the then Viceroy of India Rufus Daniel Isaacs. He travelled through various locations in the country and in 1922 settled in Rajahmundry. He instituted the Andhra Society of Indian Arts. He organised a national level art exhibition in Rajahmundry, the first time in the region. He died on 6 February 1925. Varada Venkata Rathnam established an art gallery in the name of Satya Vani, which was inaugurated

neg: Rajasthan Oriental Research Institute Rajasthan Oriental Research Institute Rajasthan Oriental Research Institute is an organisation established by Government of Rajasthan to promote Rajasthani culture and heritage and to accumulate and maintain the old Rajansthani folk art work and folk literature. It was established in 1954 under guidance of Muni Jinvijayaji, a member of the Royal Asiatic Society. Dr. Rajendra Prasad laid foundation stone in 1955 and it opened on 14 September 1958. The institute's headquarters is in Jodhpur. The institute has got a fine art gallery with a wide collection of miniature paintings of Rajasthan. The collection also includes some calligraphy and manuscripts like

neg: Rajasthan Oriental Research Institute Samput Phalak and Gandika. The library has a wide collection of old books and journals. jodhpur district Rajasthan Oriental Research Institute Rajasthan Oriental Research Institute is an organisation established by Government of Rajasthan to promote Rajasthani culture and heritage and to accumulate and maintain the old Rajansthani folk art work and folk literature. It was established in 1954 under guidance of Muni Jinvijayaji, a member of the Royal Asiatic Society. Dr. Rajendra Prasad laid foundation stone in 1955 and it opened on 14 September 1958. The institute's headquarters is in Jodhpur. The institute has got a fine art gallery with

neg: Oriental Ceramic Society Oriental Ceramic Society The Oriental Ceramic Society (OCS) is one of the leading international societies for the study and appreciation of Asian art, with a special interest in ceramics. However its wider focus is the study and appreciation of all aspects of oriental art, and over the last 90 years has served as one of the main bodies assisting the understanding of oriental art, and oriental ceramics in particular, by means of organising regular meetings, lectures and publications. The Society was founded in London in 1921 by a group of collectors and others interested in oriental ceramics. Since then, many

neg: Oriental Ceramic Society the Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly (although activities are also organised in New York). The Society's patron is HRH The Duke of Gloucester. Publications of the society include: Oriental Ceramic Society The Oriental Ceramic Society (OCS) is one of the leading international societies for the study and appreciation of Asian art, with a special interest in ceramics. However its wider focus is the study and appreciation of all aspects of oriental art, and over the last 90 years has served as one of the main bodies assisting the understanding of oriental art, and oriental ceramics in particular, by means of

neg: Abdur Rahman Chughtai In 1916, Chughtai's first painting in a revivalist 'oriental' style appeared in the "Modern Review". He had his first exhibition in 1920 at the Punjab Fine Art Society. He also exhibited with the Indian School of Oriental Art during the 1920s, by which time he had become quite renowned. His work contributed greatly to Lahore's burgeoning modern art scene. Whilst he predominantly worked with watercolors, Chughtai was also a print-maker, perfecting his etching skills in London during visits in the mid-1930s. His sketches were used in many books in Punjabi poetry by Bhai Vir Singh for illustrating his famous poems

neg: Indology Sanskrit Conference, and national-level meetings in the UK, Germany, India, Japan, France and elsewhere. They may routinely read and write in journals such as "Indo-Iranian Journal", "Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society", "Journal of the American Oriental Society", "Journal asiatique", the "Journal of the German Oriental Society" (ZDMG), "Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens", "Journal of Indian Philosophy", "Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute", "Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies" (Indogaku Bukkyogaku Kenkyu), "Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême Orient", and others. They may be members of such professional bodies as the American Oriental Society, the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and

neg: Ganga Singh 1917, the Imperial War Cabinet and the Paris Peace Conference 1919 and was Chancellor of the Indian Chamber of Princes from 1920–26. He also represented India as a delegate at the fifth session of the League of Nations in 1924. As well, the Maharaja served as Patron of Benares Hindu University and Sri Bharat Dharam Mahamandal, as Vice-President of East India Association and the Royal Colonial Institute, a Member of the Indian Gymkhana Club and of the Indian Army Temperance Association, the General Council of Mayo and Daly Colleges, the Indian Society of Oriental Art, the Indian Society-London, the Bombay

neg: Chevalier Medal for Oriental Art Chevalier Medal for Oriental Art The Chevalier Medal for Oriental Art (Chevalier Des Arts Orientaux) was initiated by various circles of society, in order to commemorate Father Ferdinand Verbiest, a Belgian scientist, philosopher, astronomer who lived in China 300 years before. The aim was to promote cooperation between the East and West, and to award those skillful but humble people who made outstanding contributions in multiple areas such as science and art. Since 2013, the Europe-China Cultural and Educational Foundation which was registered in Antwerp has managed the award. The candidates shall be nominated by governments, organizations, and art institutes;

neg: Museum of Oriental Art "Bratko" Museum of Oriental Art "Bratko" The Museum of Oriental Art "Bratko" () is an Albanian national museum dedicated to Asian art in Korçë, Albania. The museum was established and opened in June 2003, thus fulfilling the dream of George Dimitri Boria, an Albanian-American photographer, who donated his own collection of Asian art to the museum. Collection which Boria began during his 14 years in post-war Japan as photographer for General Douglas MacArthur, and which continued as a lifelong passion embracing all countries and cultures of the Orient. The name "Bratko" Museum was chosen by G.D. Boria in memory of her

neg: Nandalal Bose recipient of a scholarship offered by the Indian society of Oriental Art , founded in 1907. In 1956, he became the second artist to be elected Fellow of the Lalit Kala Akademi, India's National Academy of Art. In 1954, Nandalal Bose was awarded the Padma Vibhushan. In 1957, the University of Calcutta conferred honorary D.Litt on him. Vishvabharati University honoured him by conferring on him the title of 'Deshikottama'. The Academy of Fine Arts in Calcutta honoured Nandalal with the Silver Jubilee Medal. The Tagore Birth Centenary Medal was awarded to Nandalal Bose in 1965 by the Asiatic Society of

neg: Pratima Devi (painter) Pratima Devi (painter) Pratima Devi (1893–1969) was an Indian Bengali artist, most famous for her relationship and collaboration with Rabindranath Tagore. Pratima Tagore studied art under painter Nandalal Bose and Rabindranath Tagore, her father-in-law. Rabindranath encouraged her to pursue her artistic talents. She exhibited her work at the Indian Society of Oriental Art, run by the Tagores, from 1915 onwards. She then moved to Paris, where she studied the Italian "wet fresco" method. In India, she was in charge of the dance curriculum at the dance school founded by Rabindranath Tagore in Shantiniketan. She is credited as one of the

neg: Pu Tiansheng "Gamecock"（"鬥雞"）won first place at the Hsinchu Art Exhibition. In 1929, he joined the Chun-Meng Painting Society established by his neighbor Lin Yushan and Pan Chunyuan, a painter from Tainan. Members of the Chun-Meng Painting Society group were devoted to the study of Oriental painting, and included artists such as Zhu Futing and Xu Qinglian. In 1931, Pu Tiansheng went to study abroad in Japan where he entered the Kawabata Painting School. He was admitted to the Japanese painting division of Imperial Art School (today's Musashino Art University) in the following year, and later transferred to the Sculpting division. In 1934,

neg: Patna "heritage structures"; others are in various stages of decay. Established in 1917 as the Bihar’s first museum, the Patna Museum houses large collections that showcase Indian natural history and Indian art. The Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Library and Sinha Library are historic public libraries of Patna. Several theatres are located in or near the central part of the city, including the Bhartiya Nritya Kala Mandir, the Rabindra Parishad, Premchand Rangshala and the Kalidas Rangalaya, which is home to the Bihar art theatre. Kalidas Rangalaya also hosts the Patliputra Natya Mahotsav, a dance festival. But in the last two decades, the popularity

neg: Simon Digby (oriental scholar) Simon Digby (oriental scholar) Professor Simon Everard Digby MA (17 October 1932 – 10 January 2010) was an English oriental scholar, translator, writer and collector who was awarded the Burton Medal of the Royal Asiatic Society and was a former Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, the Honorary Librarian of the Royal Asiatic Society and Assistant Keeper in the Department of Eastern Art of the Asmolean Museum in Oxford. He was also the foremost British scholar of pre-Mughal India. Digby was born in 1932 at Jabalpur in the Central Provinces, now Madhya Pradesh, and was the grandson of William Digby, a

neg: Oriental Ceramic Society notable art historians and collectors have joined the OCS, have given lectures to the Society and have written articles for publication in the annual "Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society" (TOCS, currently edited by Dr Stacey Pierson). The "Transactions" are a highly regarded journal on Asian art, and the annual "Newsletter" brings news on Asian art from around the world. Through lectures, handling sessions, exhibitions and publications, the Society has provided an influential forum in which its members have developed and exchanged their knowledge with experts and academics. In the 1950s and ‘60s a regular exhibition programme was organized, which

neg: Earl Brewster came during his years in India, where more than a dozen of his paintings were purchased for public buildings. Copies of his statue of the Buddha were placed in several temples. In India their work was shown at the Indian Society of Oriental Art in Calcutta and at the Roerich Centre of Art and Culture in Allahabad. More recently, the ACA Galleries in New York held exhibitions of their paintings in 2001 and 2007–08. In 2008 Earl's landscape, "The Gulf of Salerno", was acquired by the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah, Ga. The Brewsters were remarkable in numbering among

neg: Nandalal Bose with a staff. It became the iconic image for the non-violence movement. His genius and original style were recognised by famous artists and art critics like Gaganendranath Tagore, Ananda Coomaraswamy and O. C. Ganguli. These lovers of art felt that objective criticism was necessary for the development of painting and founded the Indian Society of Oriental Art. He became principal of the Kala Bhavana (College of Arts) at Tagore's International University Santiniketan in 1922. He was also famously asked by Jawaharlal Nehru to sketch the emblems for the Government of India's awards, including the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Shri.

neg: Oriental Orthodoxy in the Republic of Ireland Oriental Orthodoxy in the Republic of Ireland Oriental Orthodoxy in the Republic of Ireland is part of the Oriental Orthodox Christian tradition. Before the beginning of the 20th century, the presence of Oriental Orthodox Christianity in Ireland was minor, gradually increasing only in the second half of the century with immigration, mainly from the region of Middle East and India. Today, it is a growing community, well integrated into Irish society. Adherents Oriental Orthodoxy in the Republic of Ireland are largely of Indian origin, and they belong to the jurisdiction of the Syriac Orthodox Church and its main Indian branches:

neg: C. Sivaramamurti have been published as books. He delivered important endowment lectures at many universities in India. He has over thirty-four books and innumerable papers on sculpture, painting, architecture, iconography, epigraphy, numismatics and literature to his credit. He was honoured with a number of awards during his lifetime, and in view of his contribution to Oriental Research, in 1981, the Asiatic Society of Bombay posthumously awarded a special Campbell Memorial Gold Medal. C. Sivaramamurti Calambur Sivaramamurti, (1909–1983) was an Indian museologist, art historian and epigraphist who is primarily known for his work as curator in the Government Museum, Chennai. and Sanskrit scholar.

neg: Naman Ahuja notably "The Body in Indian Art and Thought", and published books, including "The Making of the Modern Indian Artist Craftsman: Devi Prasad." He is an academic who creates a work of art as he teaches it. Professor Ahuja received his Ph.D. in Art and Archaeology from the School of Oriental and African Studies, at the University of London in 2001. His thesis was titled ‘Early Indian Moulded Terracotta: The Emergence of an Iconography and Variations in Style, Second Century BC to First Century AD’. A specific research contribution was his work on votive figurines and other imagery from the post-Mauryan

neg: National Museum, Warsaw applied arts and a department of oriental art, with the largest collection of Chinese art in Poland, comprising some 5,000 objects. The Museum boasts the Faras Gallery with Europe's largest collection of Nubian Christian art and the Gallery of Medieval Art with artefacts from all regions historically associated with Poland, supplemented by selected works created in other regions of Europe. The National Museum in Warsaw was established on 20 May 1862, as the "Museum of Fine Arts, Warsaw", and in 1916 renamed "National Museum, Warsaw" (with the inclusion of collections from museums and cultural institutions such as the Society of

neg: Syed Ahmad Khan and organising Muslim entrepreneurs. In 1859, Syed established Gulshan School at Muradabad, Victoria School at Ghazipur in 1863, and a scientific society for Muslims in 1864. In 1875, founded the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College, the first Muslim university in South Asia. During his career, Syed repeatedly called upon Muslims to loyally serve the British Empire and promoted the adoption of Urdu as the "lingua franca" of all Indian Muslims. Syed heavily critiqued the Indian National Congress. Syed maintains a strong legacy in Pakistan and Indian Muslims. He strongly influenced other Muslim leaders including Allama Iqbal and Jinnah. His advocacy of Islam's

neg: Gaganendranath Tagore actress Sharmila Tagore. Gaganendranath received no formal education but trained under the watercolourist Harinarayan Bandopadhyay. In 1907, along with his brother Abanindranath, he founded the Indian Society of Oriental Art which later published the influential journal "Rupam". Between 1906 and 1910, the artist studied and assimilated Japanese brush techniques and the influence of Far Eastern art into his own work, as demonstrated by his illustrations for Rabindranath Tagore’s autobiography "Jeevansmriti" (1912). He went on to develop his own approach in his "Chaitanya" and "Pilgrim" series. Gaganendranath eventually abandoned the revivalism of the Bengal School and took up caricature. The "Modern

neg: Kurt Erdmann acquisitions made by the Berlin Museum. Erdmanns books are still cited by present-time textbooks on oriental rugs. Kurt Erdmann Kurt Erdmann (9 September 1901, Hamburg - 30 September 1964, Berlin) was a German art historian who specialized in Sasanian and Islamic Art. He is best known for his scientific work on the history of the Oriental rug, which he established as a subspecialty within his scientific discipline. From 1958 to 1964, Erdmann served as the director of the Pergamon Museum, Berlin. He was one of the protagonists of the "Berlin school" of Islamic art history. Erdmann started studying German literature

neg: Indian art did the Persian influence patronized by the Turco-Mongol Mughals begin to affect Deccan art. British colonial rule had a great impact on Indian art. Old patrons of art became less wealthy and influential, and Western art more ubiquitous as the British Empire established schools of art in major cities, e.g. the Bombay Art Society in 1888. The Company style of paintings became common, created by Indian artists working for European patrons of the East India Company. The style was mainly Romanticized, with watercolor the primary medium used to convey soft textures and tones. By 1858, the British government took over

neg: Simon Digby (oriental scholar) School of Oriental and African Studies. The fellow is completing Simon Digby's unfinished academic work and organised an international conference in his honour, held in June 2014. Oxford University Press in Delhi signed a contract in April 2016 for the publication of a ten volume 'collected works of Simon Digby' to be published over the following two years. • The Mother-of-pearl Overlaid Furniture of Gujarat : an Indian Handicraft of the 16th and 17th Centuries, in Skelton et al., ed., Facets of Indian Art, London, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1992, pp. 213–22. Select Reviews on Indian and Asian Art-History C.

neg: Oriental Institute of Management Oriental Institute of Management Oriental Institute of Management (OIM) is affiliated to Mumbai University located in Vashi, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. This institute was established in 2006 by the parent body Oriental Education Society. Oriental Institute of Management is founded by the Oriental Education Society in 2006 under the dynamic leadership of well-known educationist Prof. Javed Khan. OIM is situated in the Vashi, harbor suburb of Mumbai. Dr. M G. Shirahatti is currently Director General of the Institute. OIM's infrastructure includes The institute offers the following courses: Affiliated to University of Mumbai specialization in OIM also offers various Part-Time courses

neg: Oriental Institute of Management in Management affiliated to University of Mumbai. OIM also conducts courses such as PhD in Management. Oriental Institute of Management Oriental Institute of Management (OIM) is affiliated to Mumbai University located in Vashi, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. This institute was established in 2006 by the parent body Oriental Education Society. Oriental Institute of Management is founded by the Oriental Education Society in 2006 under the dynamic leadership of well-known educationist Prof. Javed Khan. OIM is situated in the Vashi, harbor suburb of Mumbai. Dr. M G. Shirahatti is currently Director General of the Institute. OIM's infrastructure includes The institute offers

neg: Meera Mukherjee Meera Mukherjee Meera Mukherjee (1923–1998) was an Indian sculptor and writer, known for bringing modernity to the ancient Bengali sculpting art. She is known to have used innovative bronze casting techniques, improving the Dhokra method employing Lost-wax casting, which she learnt during her training days of the Bastar sculpting tradition of Chhattisgarh. She received the fourth highest civilian award of the Padma Shri from the Government of India in 1992 for her contributions to Arts. Meera Mukherjee, born in Kolkata to Dwijendramohan Mukherjee and Binapani Devi in 1923, had her initial training in Arts at the "Indian Society of Oriental

neg: Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College was founded in 1875, initially as a primary school, with the intention of taking it to a college level institution, known as Muhammedan Anglo Oriental Collegiate School. Its given Urdu name was Madrasatul Uloom Musalmanan-e-Hind. It started operations on Queen Victoria's 56th birthday, 24 May 1875. It was established as Madrasatul Uloom Musalmanan-e-Hind in 1875, and after two years it became "Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College". The Anglo–Indian statesman Sir Syed Ahmad Khan founded the predecessor of Aligarh Muslim University, the Muhammadan Anglo Oriental College, in 1875 having already established two schools. These were part of

neg: Ludo Rocher the Department of Oriental Studies (renamed Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies in 1991). He was also a Visiting Professor of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, in 1965, and at the University of Leuven, Belgium, in 1976. Rocher was President of the American Oriental Society in 1985-1986, and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the American Institute of Indian Studies in 1984-1985. He was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society and of the Royal Academy of Overseas Sciences (Belgium). He was also elected a Fellow of the Asiatic Society (Calcutta) where

neg: Women Artists of Bangladesh pata painting. The Indian Society of Oriental Art organized a number of exhibitions of her paintings in Europe but she had no shows at home during her lifetime. The inspiration of folk art that we observe in her painting (fig. 1.10) was later more fully explored by Jamini Roy. It was perhaps because she had no desire to establish herself as a great artist that experimentation and originality were boldly present in her work. She was a prolific worker using thrown away cardboard to covers of exercise books. This shows her easy and spontaneous attitude towards her work. Kishore Chatterjee

neg: Achsah Barlow Brewster Independents and the Salon des Tuileries; in Rome at the Secessione and the Pincio Casino and in India at the Roerich Center of Art & Culture in Allahabad and at the Indian Society of Oriental Art in Calcutta. In India some of her paintings were bought to be displayed in public buildings. Recent exhibitions of the Brewsters' work were held in 2001 and in 2007-08 at ACA Galleries in New York City. Achsah's large "Sermon on the Mount", a triptych, is still on view at St. Georges Church, Crecy-en-Brie, France. In 2008 her painting, "Hamadryad", was acquired by the Telfair

neg: Beohar Rammanohar Sinha Beohar Rammanohar Sinha Beohar Rammanohar Sinha (15 June 1929 – 25 October 2007) was an Indian artist who is very well known for his illustrations in the original final manuscript of Constitution of India, including the complete Preamble-page, which was brought to fruition in 1949 as one of the most beautiful Constitution in the world in addition to being the most comprehensive one. He is also known as a cultural ambassador of India who disseminated Indian art in the Far East, and brought Oriental Art to India. His works are housed in numerous prestigious public and private collections throughout the

neg: Oriental Theatre (Milwaukee) Oriental Theatre (Milwaukee) Oriental Theatre is a theater in Milwaukee, Wisconsin operated by Milwaukee Film. The theater was built and opened in 1927 as a movie palace with East Indian decor. It is said to be the only movie palace to incorporate East Indian artwork. Designed by Gustave A. Dick and Alex Bauer, the theater has two minaret towers, three stained glass chandeliers, several hand-drawn murals, six bigger-than-life Buddhas, dozens of original draperies, eight porcelain lions, and hundreds of elephants. The Oriental Theatre has been showing independent and art films, as well as a few blockbuster Hollywood films. The theater

neg: Giuseppe Eskenazi London and also formed part of the steering committee that established Asian Art in London, later acting as Chairman for the event in 2002 and 2003. Between 1993 and 2007 he served on the Asia House Executive Committee and between 1998 and 2002 he was on the Council for the Oriental Ceramic Society. He was a Trustee of the Asia House Trust (London), 2000-2007, an advisor to the board of Bard Graduate Center in New York, 2000 to 2015, and an advisor to the Royal Academy of Art for the exhibitions 100 Masterpieces of Imperial Chinese Ceramics from the Au

neg: Education in West Bengal Institute of Technology, Durgapur, Indian Statistical Institute and Visva-Bharati University. Kolkata has played a pioneering role in the development of the modern education system in India. Western models of education came to India through Kolkata. Many of the first schools and colleges were established by the missionaries and reformists. Sir William Jones (philologist) established the Asiatic Society in 1784 for promoting oriental studies. People like Ram Mohan Roy, David Hare, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Shashi Bhusan Chatterjee, and William Carey played a leading role in the setting up of modern schools and colleges in the city. The Fort William College was

neg: Chevalier Medal for Oriental Art the winner will be evaluated and decided by more than three Belgian jury members. No commercial institution is allowed in the process of nomination and evaluation. The award ceremony is usually held in a traditional European style, while the place of awarding is not fixed. This award has become widely respected in several different European countries due to its pragmatic and low-key approach. Before that, the award has only ever been given to Chinese artists and dignitaries. Chevalier Medal for Oriental Art The Chevalier Medal for Oriental Art (Chevalier Des Arts Orientaux) was initiated by various circles of society, in

neg: The Asiatic Society of Mumbai in 1907 and is awarded to recognize distinguished services on the subject of Oriental History, Folklore or Ethnology which further the investigation and encouragement of Oriental Arts, Sciences and Literature. The first winner was archaeologist Aurel Stein in 1908. Established in 1946, the medal is awarded for valuable research work in Vedic Studies or in Classical Sanskrit with special reference to Dharma Shastra and Poetics. The Silver Medal is awarded to a member of the Society who has written a book adjudged as the best in the given 3-year period. The Town Hall (colloquially Called "Tondal" in the 19th century)

neg: Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft The Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (, "German Oriental Society"), abbreviated DMG, is a scholarly organization dedicated to Oriental studies, that is, to the study of the languages and cultures of the Near East and the Far East, the broader Orient, Asia, Oceania, and Africa. The DMG was established on 2 October 1845 in Leipzig by leading Oriental scholars from Germany, as well as members of other Orientalist societies such as the Asiatic Societies in Paris (the Société Asiatique), London (the Royal Asiatic Society), and Calcutta (the Asiatic Society). It was founded "to promote all aspects of the knowledge

neg: Grace Morley Force officer and his wife, who became her Indian family, and it was there she died at the age of 84. They believe she had converted to Buddhism at some point in time. Morley's body was cremated in the Indian tradition, and her ashes immersed in a holy river. Research fellowships in her honor are awarded by ICOM India Trust each year. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has established the Grace McCann Morley Legacy Society for donors who provide for the museum in their estate plans. In India, the National Museum Institute holds an annual Dr Grace Morley

neg: Amir Hossein Zekrgoo Amir Hossein Zekrgoo Amir Hossein Zekrgoo (born 1957 in Tehran) is an Iranian artist, art historian and Indologist. He has been professor of Islamic and Oriental Arts at the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC) from 2001 to 2016. Hewas awarded Ikuo Hirayama Silk Roads Fellowship by UNESCO. Zekrgoo is an art historian of Islamic & Oriental Arts, researcher of Persian mystical art and literature, and a scholar of comparative religion. He has studied Fine Arts in the University of Kansas, Indian Art in the University of Delhi, and Islamic Manuscript and Monumental Inscriptions at the National Museum

neg: Oriental Cricket Club Oriental Cricket Club The Oriental Cricket Club was a cricket club established by the Parsi community in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) in 1848. The origins of Indian Cricket, that is, cricket played by Indians are to be found in Bombay and the first Indian community to start playing the game was the small community of Zoroastrians, the Parsi. The Parsi community viewed these clubs as a way of cementing ties with the British colonial powers. They were sponsored by Parsi businessmen like the Tatas and the Wadias. Though the club was the first to be organised by Indians, it was closed

neg: Oriental Cricket Club a few years later. The Parsis were the first to start the cricket in India because they were in close contacts with the Imperial British, as they were interested in trade. Oriental Cricket Club The Oriental Cricket Club was a cricket club established by the Parsi community in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) in 1848. The origins of Indian Cricket, that is, cricket played by Indians are to be found in Bombay and the first Indian community to start playing the game was the small community of Zoroastrians, the Parsi. The Parsi community viewed these clubs as a way of cementing ties

neg: Pan-Asianism Oriental Youngmen's Association in 1900. Their anti-British political activity caused consternation to the Indian Government, following a report in the London "Spectator". However, Japanese society had been strongly inclined to ultranationalism from the Freedom and People's Rights Movement. The latter debates on aggressive expansionism to Asia became clearly apparent. Their representatives were the Black Ocean Society and the Black Dragon Society. The Black Dragon Society (1933) argued for Japanese imperialism and expansionism, and they led to a debate on securing the Asian continent under Japanese control. Exceptionally, Ryōhei Uchida (1874–1937), who was a member of the Black Dragon Society, was

neg: Caspar Purdon Clarke Boston in 1884, edited a work on oriental carpets for the Austrian government in 1892, and besides lecturing, contributed numerous papers on architecture, Eastern arts and crafts, and arms and armour to the Journal of the Society of Arts, the Journal of Indian Art, the Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and other publications. In 1910 he published a catalogue of the Arms and Armour at Sandringham. He was made chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur in 1878, in which year he also received silver and bronze medals at the Paris Exhibition, which were followed by a gold medal

neg: An Oriental Biographical Dictionary he was a clerk in the office of the Board of Revenue of the North West Provinces and evidently a knowledgeable amateur historian. According to Keene's preface to the 1894 edition of the work, Beale had never been in Europe and died at an advanced age in Agra, 1875. He was also the author of a historical work in Persian, "", published in 1867. An Oriental Biographical Dictionary An Oriental Biographical Dictionary (original title "The Oriental Biographical Dictionary") was an important biographical dictionary of the Islamic, Persian and Indian worlds by Thomas William Beale, published posthumously by The Asiatic Society

neg: William J. Gedney the faculty of the University of Michigan from after 1972-1975 as Dean of the Faculty of Linguistics had worked. Throughout his career, Gedney was in the Linguistic Society of America, the American Oriental Society, the Siam Society, the Association for Asian Studies and Southeast Asian Linguistic Society. In 1981, he served as vice president of the American Oriental Society, serving in 1982 as its president. By focusing on data and his extensive knowledge of the Tai–Kadai languages, Gedney established himself as a leader in the comparative-historical study of Tai languages and dialects. But his influence went far beyond linguistics. Researchers

neg: Oriental Institute, Woking Oriental Institute, Woking The Oriental Institute was a British educational institution in Woking, Surrey, established by Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner. It was also occasionally called the Oriental University Institute. The site of the Royal Dramatic College was purchased by Leitner in the spring of 1884. He immediately went about turning it into his idea of an Oriental Institute, decorating the interior with objects he had collected on his travels. Part of the building was turned into an Oriental Museum, said to have housed the most interesting collection of artefacts from the east in Britain, and it also contained an art collection.

neg: Simon Digby (oriental scholar) Elephant in the Delhi Sultanate". In 1972 he was appointed to a post in the Department of Eastern Art of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, which had been created for David McCutchion, who had died before he could take it up. This was to be Simon's only full-time paid position, he having benefitted from a number of legacies from deceased relatives. At the Ashmolean, and on a tight budget, he made a series of purchases of Indian decorative arts that were exceptional for their quality. As an ex-officio member of the Oriental Faculty of the University of Oxford (1972–2000), Digby

neg: Gopal Ghose depict nature. Ghose reworked the genre of landscape painting, investing it with expressionistic qualities. He travelled extensively within India to paint his landscapes. Ghose was adept with several mediums, and known especially for his ingenious handling of watercolour. He also worked with tempera, pen and ink, and brush and pastel. He was one of the founder members of the well-known Calcutta Group (1943). Ghose taught at the Indian Society of Oriental Art, in Kolkata from 1940–45 and then joined the faculty of the Bengal Engineering College, Shibpur (then affiliated with the University of Calcutta), where he taught architectural drawing. He

neg: David Pingree remained at Harvard three more years as a member of its Society of Fellows before moving to the University of Chicago to accept the position of Research Associate at the Oriental Institute. He joined the History of Mathematics Department at Brown University in 1971, eventually holding the chair until his death. As successor to Otto Neugebauer (1899–1990) in Brown's History of Mathematics Department (which Neugebauer established in 1947), Pingree numbered among his colleagues men of extraordinary learning, especially Abraham Sachs and Gerald Toomer. D. Pingree is known for propounding his theory of "unoriginality" of the Indian science of astronomy (jyotiṣa),

neg: An Oriental Biographical Dictionary An Oriental Biographical Dictionary An Oriental Biographical Dictionary (original title "The Oriental Biographical Dictionary") was an important biographical dictionary of the Islamic, Persian and Indian worlds by Thomas William Beale, published posthumously by The Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1881. A new edition, revised and enlarged, was published in London by W. H. Allen in 1894. The book has since been reprinted several times and is now out of copyright. Both editions were edited by Henry Keene, Fellow of the University of Calcutta and a contributor to the Dictionary of National Biography. Little is known of Beale, other than that

neg: Mutty Lall Seal the founders of "Assam Company Ltd.". Under his influence, the then "Oriental Life Insurance Company" (later reconstructed as "New Oriental Insurance Company" in 1834) founded by the Europeans, being the first life insurance company on Indian soil, accepted to underwrite "Indian lives." He was among the founders of "Bank of India". He was on the board of "Agricultural And Horticultural Society of India". In the course of time he amassed as much wealth as Dwarkanath Tagore and Rustomjee Cowasjee. In 1878 Kissori Chand Mitra delivered a lecture on the life of Mutty Lall Seal calling him the ""Rothschild of Calcutta"".

neg: Oriental College of Pharmacy Test) conducted by the Directorate of Technical Education, Maharashtra state. Oriental College of Pharmacy Oriental College of Pharmacy (OCP) is located in Sanpada, Navi Mumbai founded by the Oriental Education Society. The Oriental College of Pharmacy was established in 2004 and recognised by All India Council for Technical Education (A.I.C.T.E.), New Delhi and it is affiliated to the University of Mumbai. Besides the regular curriculum, the students are also involved in co-curricular activities like Live projects, summer internships, Inter college competitions, Research projects etc. OCP offers full-time Graduate and Post graduate programs affiliated to University of Mumbai. The admission procedure

neg: Oriental College of Pharmacy Oriental College of Pharmacy Oriental College of Pharmacy (OCP) is located in Sanpada, Navi Mumbai founded by the Oriental Education Society. The Oriental College of Pharmacy was established in 2004 and recognised by All India Council for Technical Education (A.I.C.T.E.), New Delhi and it is affiliated to the University of Mumbai. Besides the regular curriculum, the students are also involved in co-curricular activities like Live projects, summer internships, Inter college competitions, Research projects etc. OCP offers full-time Graduate and Post graduate programs affiliated to University of Mumbai. The admission procedure to the institute is through scores from MH-CET (Common Entrance

neg: Ernst Kühnel Ernst Kühnel Ernst Kühnel (1882−1964) was a German art historian who specialized in Islamic art. He was notable for his research on the connection between Islamic and Coptic art, particularly in textiles. Kühnel served as director of the Museum of Islamic Art (part of the Berlin State Museums) from 1931 to 1951, and was a professor at the University of Berlin from 1935 to 1954. He was also a consultant for the Textile Museum in Washington, D.C., and president of Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft (German Oriental Society). In 1960, Ernst Kühnel became the second person to be awarded the Charles Lang Freer

neg: Ernest Bender 1988. He served as the president of the AOS from 1993 to 1994. He served as the vice-president of the International Association of Sanskrit Studies, and convened the 6th World Sanskrit Conference in Philadelphia in 1984. He was a member of many scholarly societies beyond those in America, including the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland; the L.D. Institute of Indology in Ahmedabad; the Asiatic Society of Bengal; the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune; and the Oriental Institute in Baroda. Bender had a pivotal role in developing teaching methods for Indian subcontinental languages in the American graduate studies

neg: History of the Anushilan Samiti notably from early on, established links with foreign movements and Indian nationalism abroad. In 1907, Barin Ghosh arranged to send to Paris one of his associates by the name of Hem Chandra Kanungo (Hem Chandra Das), he was to learn the art of bomb making from Nicholas Safranski, a Russian revolutionary in exile in the French Capital. Paris was also home at the time Madam Cama who was amongst the leading figures of the Paris Indian Society and the India House in London. The bomb manual later found its way through V.D. Savarkar to the press at India House for

neg: Orientalism not just during colonial times, but also in the present." In art history, the term Orientalism refers to the works of the Western artists who specialized in Oriental subjects, produced from their travels in Western Asia, during the 19th century. In that time, artists and scholars were described as Orientalists, especially in France, where the dismissive use of the term "Orientalist" was made popular by the art critic Jules-Antoine Castagnary. Despite such social disdain for a style of representational art, the French Society of Orientalist Painters was founded in 1893, with Jean-Léon Gérôme as the honorary president; whereas in Britain,

neg: Beohar Rammanohar Sinha – the only institution outside India that uses Lion Capital of Ashoka as its logo. This was Rammanohar's first brush with the Oriental art with which he stayed despite the opportunity of relocating to Slade School of Fine Art in London on his senior Krishna Reddy's behest. Rammanohar's most famous works include the illustrations on the pages of the original calligraphic manuscript of Constitution of India, including the complete Preamble-page, which were endorsed in 1949 by Nandalal Bose without any alteration whatsoever. So that his art on the Indian Constitution represents the sum acumen of original Indian art in its

neg: Horace Hayman Wilson practices observed for cholera and leprosy in his publications in the Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta. In 1827 Wilson published "Select Specimens of the Theatre of the Hindus", which contained a very full survey of the Indian drama, translations of six complete plays and short accounts of twenty-three others. His "Mackenzie Collection" (1828) is a descriptive catalogue of the extensive collection of Oriental, especially South Indian, manuscripts and antiquities made by Colonel Colin Mackenzie, then deposited partly in the India Office, London (now part of the Oriental and India Office Collections of the British Library) and partly at Madras

neg: Kurt Erdmann Kurt Erdmann Kurt Erdmann (9 September 1901, Hamburg - 30 September 1964, Berlin) was a German art historian who specialized in Sasanian and Islamic Art. He is best known for his scientific work on the history of the Oriental rug, which he established as a subspecialty within his scientific discipline. From 1958 to 1964, Erdmann served as the director of the Pergamon Museum, Berlin. He was one of the protagonists of the "Berlin school" of Islamic art history. Erdmann started studying German literature in 1919, but soon developed a deeper interest in European art history. His PhD thesis in 1927,

neg: Sheila R. Canby Society. She has held positions at the Brooklyn Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Fogg Art Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She was a visiting lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Sheila R. Canby Sheila R. Canby (born 10 January 1949) is the Metropolitan Museum of Art's curator of Islamic art and a former curator of Islamic art and antiquities at the British Museum. She is a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. Sheila Canby was born on 10 January 1949. She earned her BA from Vassar College,

neg: George Nedungatt George Nedungatt George Nedungatt (born 21 December 1932 in Peringuzha near Muvattupuzha in Travancore, India), is an Indian Jesuit priest of Oriental rite, and expert in Oriental Canon Law. Nedungatt is the middle child of three brothers. He was born to a Christian family. Nedungatt joined the Society of Jesus in 1950. As a novice, he was assigned during his "Mission Experiment" to preach at popular retreats. George Nedungatt arrived in Rome in 1967. By 1973 he had obtained his doctorate in Oriental Canon Law with a thesis on Figli e le figlie del Patto in Afraate. Several abstracts were

neg: Benode Behari Mukherjee Kumar claims, "His major work is the monumental 1947 mural at the Hindi Bhavan, Sha'ntiniketan, based on the lives of medieval Indian saints and painted without cartoons. With its conceptual breadth and synthesis of elements from Giotto and Tawaraya Sotatsu, as well as from the art of such ancient Indian sites as Ajanta and Mamallapuram, it is among the greatest achievements in contemporary Indian painting." His style was a complex fusion of idioms absorbed from Western modern art and the spirituality of oriental traditions (both Indian and Far-Eastern). Some of his works show a marked influence of Far-Eastern traditions, namely

neg: Pontifical Oriental Institute Pontifical Oriental Institute The Pontifical Oriental Institute (, ) or "Orientale" is the premier center for the study of Eastern Christianity in Rome, Italy. The pontifical institute was established in 1917 by Pope Benedict XV. Pope Pius XI entrusted the Institute to the Society of Jesus in 1922, and with the 1928 encyclical "Rerum Orientalium" encouraged bishops to send students to the Institute to be formed as future professors in Oriental studies. In that same year, Pius XI associated the Institute with the Pontifical Gregorian University and the Pontifical Biblical Institute, thus forming the Gregorian Consortium. In 1971, the Faculty

neg: Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE Society Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE Society The Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE (OCP) is a society for the promotion of Orthodox Christian unity and faith established under the Travancore-Cochin Literary, Scientific and Charitable Societies Registration Act of 1955. Formerly known as Orthodoxy Beyond Limits, the society's name changed in 2010 and it was registered in July of that year. OCP accords equal importance to Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches; according to its mission statement, it "firmly believes that both the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Oriental Orthodox Churches are the true heirs to the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church of Christ, which was

neg: Philip Augustine is certified by the "National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare providers". Besides, Augustine is credited as the first to report on Crohn's disease in the country in 1995, which he submitted at the national conference of the "Indian Society of Gastroenterology". he also led a team of doctors who first reported "Recurrent Pyogenic Cholangites" or "Oriental Cholangiopathy" in India. Augustine has published a book on bowel diseases which serves as a reference book on the subject. He has also published several scientific journals and has contributed chapters on pancreasis in medical text books. Philip Augustine Philip Augustine, an Indian

neg: Nathaniel Wallich superintendent of the Oriental Museum of the Asiatic Society. Dr. Nathaniel Wallich took charge of the museum on 1 June 1814. The museum thus inaugurated, grew rapidly under the guidance of its founder Wallich and private collectors. Most of these private contributors were Europeans except for one Indian, Babu Ramkamal Sen, initially a collector and later the first Indian secretary to the Asiatic Society. Wallich was not only the enthusiastic founder and the first curator the Indian Museum, he was one of the largest donors to the museum at its inception. Out of one hundred seventy four items donated to

neg: David Günzburg "Ibn Guzman" (Berlin), and wrote a series of articles on "Metrics", published in the memoirs of the "Oriental Department of the Russian Archeological Society" (1893) and of the Neo-Philological Society (1892), in the "Journal" of the Ministry of Public Instruction of Russia, and elsewhere. Günzburg was an enthusiastic patron Jewish art, and published, with Vladimir Stasov, "L'Ornement Hébreu" (Berlin, 1903). In this book he gives examples of Jewish ornamentation from various manuscripts from Syria, Africa, and Yemen. He edited a catalogue of the manuscripts in the Institute for Oriental Languages. He also contributed largely to the "Revue des Études Juives",

neg: W.G. Archer W.G. Archer William George Archer, OBE (1907-1979), who wrote as W. G. Archer, and was known to friends as Bill, was a British civil servant and art historian, and later museum curator. Archer was born on 1 February 1907, and studied first history at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and then Hindi, Indian history and law at the School of Oriental Studies in London. He subsequently served in the Indian Civil Service, in Bihar, from 1931 until around 1947, when India gained independence. His roles included District Magistrate and Superintendent of the Census. He was also Additional Deputy Commissioner in the Naga

neg: Gymnosophy to the hippie movement. The movement is known by mainly three organisations, the English Gymnosophical Society, Societe Internationale de Gymnosophie and the American Gymnosophical Association. In 1919, the Yoga teacher Blanche DeVries opened a "Yoga Gymnosophy Institute" in New York that combined Oriental Dance and Yoga. The "English Gymnosophical Society" was founded in 1922 and became "The New Gymnosophy Society" in 1926. One of the first members was Gerald Gardner, who in 1945 established the 'Five Acres Club', ostensibly as a nudist club, but as a front for Wiccans, as this was illegal in England until 1951. The "Societe Internationale

neg: W.G. Archer Great Britain and Ireland's Burton Memorial Medal. He died on 6 March 1979. His papers, together with those of his wife, are held by the British Library. W.G. Archer William George Archer, OBE (1907-1979), who wrote as W. G. Archer, and was known to friends as Bill, was a British civil servant and art historian, and later museum curator. Archer was born on 1 February 1907, and studied first history at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and then Hindi, Indian history and law at the School of Oriental Studies in London. He subsequently served in the Indian Civil Service, in Bihar, from

neg: Daniel H. H. Ingalls Sr. Bimal Krishna Matilal, Robert Thurman, Sheldon Pollock, Karl Harrington Potter, Phyllis Granoff, Indira Viswanathan Peterson, David Pingree, and Gary Tubb. He was renowned for the rigor of his introductory Sanskrit course. He was the editor of the Harvard Oriental Series from 1950 to 1983. Ingalls was the father of the computer scientist Dan Ingalls and the author Rachel Ingalls. He was also chairman of the department of Sanskrit and Indian studies and president of the American Oriental Society. Volume 44 of the Harvard Oriental Series, 'An Anthology of Sanskrit Court Poetry', is the acclaimed English translation by Ingalls of the

neg: Hindu–German Conspiracy Trial of many languages", and the German, Ernst Sekunna, being arrested on charges of conspiracy. Most of the others were arrested on April 8, including Franz Bopp, the German Consul General for San Francisco, E. H. von Schack, Deus Dekker and Wilhelm von Brincken. The Indian Nationalists were accused of taking "advantage of American neutrality to plot on American soil against the allies" at "the expense of the laws and hospitality of the United States". The two men had also taken out trade names to do business as "The Oriental Society", "The Oriental Kitchen",and the "Oriental Review", and purchased of land

neg: Frederic Huntington Douglas also established "Indian Fashion Shows" (or Indian Style Show) that used clothing from the Denver Art Museum's American Indian collection that were modeled by "society ladies and Native Americans." He presented this fashion show over 100 times across the country. He served as a Commissioner of the Indian Arts and Crafts Board (Federal Arts and Crafts Board) and as a trustee of a number of museums. Frederic Douglas, along with Rene d'Harnoncourt and Henry Clumb, was involved in the Indian Court, Federal Building, at the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition during the World's Fair in San Francisco. He served as

neg: R. D. Raval including the Bombay Art Society, Lalit Kala Akademi, and Academy of Fine Arts of Calcutta. He had a number of exhibitions of his work, mainly in Bombay, New Delhi and Calcutta; he participated in one exhibition in Stamford. He had several exhibitions at the Jehangir Art Gallery in Bombay, an institution that has supported a number of eminent Indian artists. Since he died before the Internet was properly established, little of his work is visible online. R. D. Raval R.D. Raval was an Indian artist. Born Sardoi, Gujarat, India - 1928; died October 1980. He should be distinguished from an

neg: Suh Se-ok Suh Se-ok Suh Se-ok (, hanja: 徐世鈺, 1929- ) is a South Korean oriental painting artist. He was born in Daegu, Korea. Following his graduation from the College of Arts of the Seoul National University, he became an artist pursuing modernistic and independent formative world by wonderful illustration of the strengths of the colorless pale Indian ink and the empty and marginal spaces of oriental ink-and-wash paint in the lyrical abstract realm of the oriental paintings. His representative works include 〈Seolhwayijang〉 and 〈People handling the sun〉, etc. He received wide range of art awards in Korea and participated in numerous

neg: Tangutology of Tangut Buddhist art, which he sent back to the Russian Geographical Society in Saint Petersburg for preservation and study. The material was subsequently transferred to the Asiatic Museum of the Academy of Sciences, which later became the Saint Petersburg branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (now the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts). It was the discovery of this unprecedented hoard of Tangut material by Kozlov that led to the development of Tangutology as a separate academic discipline within the field of oriental studies. After the arrival of the Khara-Khoto material in Saint Petersburg

neg: George Eumorfopoulos in acquiring objects. His collection of Oriental art grew to an enormous size, obliging him to add a two-storey extension to the back of his Chelsea house. He founded the Oriental Ceramic Society and was its first president from 1921 until his death in 1939. He organised and funded the publication of eleven volumes illustrating and describing items from his collection during the 1920s and early 1930s. Free access to his collection and encouragement from him inspired his neighbours Nell and Charles Vyse to experiment with Oriental stoneware glazes. Eumorfopoulos had intended to bequeath his collection to the British nation,

neg: Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1824. The RAS was established by a group primarily composed of notable scholars and colonial administrators. It was intended to be the British counterpart to the Asiatic Society of Calcutta, which had been founded in 1784 by the noted Sanskrit scholar and jurist Sir William Jones. A leading figure in the foundation of the RAS was Henry Thomas Colebrooke, who was himself an important Sanskrit scholar, and one time President of the Asiatic Society of Calcutta. When the Oriental Club of London was formed in 1824, membership of the RAS was stated as one of the four qualifications for membership

neg: Shah Jahan Mosque, Woking was designed in a Persian-Saracenic Revival style, and has a dome, minarets, and a courtyard. The architecture was described by Pevsner Architectural Guides as "extraordinarily dignified". The Oriental Institute, for the students of which the mosque was constructed, was founded by Leitner in 1881. He had purchased the former Royal Dramatic College building in Woking and established the Institute in order to promote oriental literature. It awarded degrees from the University of the Punjab in Lahore, Pakistan. The mosque became the first formal place of Islamic worship in England. Queen Victoria's British Indian employees and her British Indian secretary, Abdul

neg: Flamenco in Japan art-form based upon traditional music development in Southern Spain. Even though Japan, due to its strict social and behavioral norms, does not develop it in society, what attracts the practice of this art is precisely the way in which feelings are expressed and the way to feel free. Flamenco coincides with the oriental rhythm, which is why many Japanese people move unconsciously when they hear it and reassure themselves in the style of "mi", which is the typical model of flamenco. In addition, the hoarse voice of flamenco is a peculiarity that it shares with oriental voices. In Japan, in

neg: Paintings of Abanindranath Tagore he brought an attitudinal change in the Indian response to traditional art. But his true contribution went beyond these. Trained under European artists initially, realism remained the underpinning of his work. But as a modernist at heart who was guided more by his sensibility than his training, he transformed the post Renaissance academic realism into which he was trained with his series of contacts with oriental art into something more supple and responsive to the imaginative flights of his mind. A post-Romantic in his sensibilities, he let his individualism triumph over his nationalism. Although he aligned with the nationalists in

neg: Edoardo Chiossone Museum of Oriental Art Edoardo Chiossone Museum of Oriental Art The Edoardo Chiossone Museum of Oriental Art in Genoa is an important collection of Asian art, one of the most significative collections in Europe and in Italy, along with the museums of Venice and Rome. The museum hosts the huge collection (over 15,000 pieces) of Edoardo Chiossone, who spent 23 years (1875-1898) in Japan. The exhibition shows many objects and artworks from Japan and China, like sculptures, porcelain pieces, bronze vessels, prints, masks, Samurai armors and helmets. It is situated inside Villetta Di Negro, a public park in the centre of Genoa, next to

neg: Edoardo Chiossone Museum of Oriental Art Piazza Corvetto and overlooking the historical centre and Via Garibaldi. Edoardo Chiossone Museum of Oriental Art The Edoardo Chiossone Museum of Oriental Art in Genoa is an important collection of Asian art, one of the most significative collections in Europe and in Italy, along with the museums of Venice and Rome. The museum hosts the huge collection (over 15,000 pieces) of Edoardo Chiossone, who spent 23 years (1875-1898) in Japan. The exhibition shows many objects and artworks from Japan and China, like sculptures, porcelain pieces, bronze vessels, prints, masks, Samurai armors and helmets. It is situated inside Villetta Di Negro,

neg: Zara Cisco Brough historic resource and came under federal protection in 2009. Brough was actively involved in the Council of New England Indians. She organized the Council and established the Nipmuc branch of the council. Brough served on the Grafton Planning Board and Central Massachusetts Planning Board, and was involved in a number of other organizations such as the Grafton Forest Association, the Framingham Historical Society, the National Geographic Society, the Natural History Museum of New York, Mendon Historical Society, National Congress of American Indians, Technical Writers and Publishers Society, Worcester Art Museum, the Board of Trustees of the Riverside, Old and Indian

neg: Indians in Japan branch in Tokyo since 2006, and plans to open another in Yokohama in 2008. They follow the Indian Central Board of Secondary Education curriculum. The schools are popular not just among Indian expatriates, but among some Japanese as well, due to a reputation for rigour in mathematics education. Other migrants leave their children behind in their native states, either with grandparents or at the boarding schools, in order to avoid interrupting their education. Jeevarani "Rani Sanku" Angelina, established the Little Angels International School, which caters to Japanese students. One of the earliest Indian community organisations, the Oriental Club, was established