Southern India
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of 208 objects associated with southern India, which date broadly from 500 to 1997. This collection includes furniture, architectural items, paintings, prints, domestic and religious objects, metalware, mats, fans and baskets and other containers. It also contains jewellery, stone and wooden carvings, hunting tools and weapons, costume and textiles, musical instruments, bronze sculptures and photographs. Many of these items were acquired in the 19th century from various institutions and exhibitions, such as the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, the Government Central Museum in Chennai, the South Kensington Exhibition of 1886, and the Glasgow International Exhibition of 1888. A recent acquisition of significance, purchased in 1992, is an unusually large cast bronze figure of Shiva as Nataraja, made in southern India, of Chola style. The collection also includes a series of large contemporary colour photographic prints entitled ‘The Hindu Gods of Kerala’ by the photographer Pepita Seth, from the 1997 exhibition ‘The Divine Frenzy’. Southern India encompasses the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu, and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Pondicherry.
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