The Wonders that Basham Saw

The Annotated Archives of Arthur Llewellyn Basham

Read research on the archives from the project team

Articles

Explore archives from collections across the world

Galleries

Articles

Articles from the Project Team

  • Basham’s Contemporaries

    Mallica Kumbera Landrus
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    Article Gallery

  • A.L. Basham’s Digitized Archive: Uncovering Greater India and the Teaching of an Asian Art History

    Priya Maholay-JARADI
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    Article Gallery

  • Culture and Exchange in the Riverine Metropolis

    Chaitanya Sambrani
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    Calcutta: Modernity and Revivalism

  • Sanctuaries and Seekers

    Chaitanya Sambrani
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    Barabar Caves

Galleries

Collections from the Basham Archive, NGA, National Museum of Singapore, and the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

  • Article Gallery

    A special gallery containing highlighted images selected for site articles.

  • Calcutta: Modernity and Revivalism

    The riverine metropolis: turning outward to the world, absorbing and transforming influences. These are sites of inhabitation, exchange and pilgrimage.

  • Barabar Caves

    The cave sanctuary: a site for turning within to reach beyond. Ascetics directing the gaze inward to discover the larger meaning of the world. The Barabar caves date from the 4th to 2nd centuries BCE and are the oldest surviving example of rock-cut architecture in the Indian subcontinent.