Central India
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of 294 objects from Central India, which date from 1879 to 1996. This collection comprises 262 objects from Maharashtra, 21 from Andhra Pradesh and seven from Northern Karnataka. The collection includes furniture, weapons and armour, architectural items, paintings, prints, and domestic and religious items. It also contains metalware, fans, utensils, containers, jewellery, stone carvings and wooden carvings, costume, textiles and musical instruments. The collection is dominated by material purchased at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition held in South Kensington in 1886, and at Glasgow’s International Exhibition of 1888 – primarily of brass, silver and bidri ware. Unique to Glasgow are 121 architectural components of an ornately carved wooden model of a Parsee Tower of Silence, and a marble model of the Taj Mahal donated by Ardeshir and Byranji of Mumbai. Other items include a rare life-sized clay model of a costumed Maharatta woman from Poona, six bullets from the 1803 Battle of Assaye, and a fine ceremonial tulwar, or sword, from the Deccan region, which is dated to the 14th century. The collection also encompasses two large papier-mâché masks purchased in 1995 from the contemporary Hyderabadi artist Chintala Jagdish.
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