DR. KENNETH X. ROBBINS

5055 SEMINARY ROAD

ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA 22311

703-379-2600

E-mail address: RAJANAWAB@aol.com

 

Publications Dealing With India

1. Indian and Southeast Asian Ivories: Selections From Local Collections-The Brooklyn Museum. Orientations  March 1983

2. Indo-Asian Shadow Figures. Arts Of Asia  Sept.-Oct. 1983

3. The Art Of India And Pakistan. Arts Of Asia  May-June 1985

4. The Sculpture Of India 3000 B. C.-1300 A. D.. Arts Of Asia Sept.-Oct. 1985

5.  Indian Miniatures From The Ehrenfeld Collection. Arts Of Asia  May-June 1986

6.  The Indian And Nepalese Collections Of The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. Bulletin Of The Indian Institute Of  The History  Of Medicine  July, 1987

7.  India: A Festival Of Science. Highlights:: Notes, News And Views On The Arts, History And Letters Of India  Summer 1987 (Co-Author Joyce Robbins)

8.  Siddha Medicine.  Highlights  Summer 1987

9. Use Of Numismatic and Philatelic Source Material in the study of the Princely States Of India. Indo-British Review 15#2: 143, 1988.

10. Maharajas, Nawabs & Other Princes Beyond Number From The Robbins Collection Of The Indian Princely States. Ind Dak (Serialized 1990-1)

11. The Jewish Community Of Calcutta. 

A. In  R. Krishna (Editor) From  Thames To  Hooghly: Calcutta Heritage 1690-1990.  Washington: India School, 1990. Pp. 32-40

B. Points East  8 #1:6-9, 1993

12. The Calcutta  Collection Of The Wellcome Institute For The History  Of Medicine. (Co-author Joyce Robbins)

A.  In R. Krishna,  1990,  Pp. 41-50

B. Bull. Indian Institute Of The History Of Medicine  20:107-21, 1990

13. Kalighat Painting, in R. Krishna, 1990, Pp. 61-74.

14. Maharajas, Nawabs And Other Princes Beyond Number From The Robbins Collection Of The Indian States: Exhibition Guide. Washington: Gandhi Memorial Center, 1991.

15. Barriers To The Appreciation Of Indian Art. Highlights  6:5, 1991

16. Medals Of The Indian Princely States. The India Magazine  April 1992    

17. Jams & Nizams; Nawabs & Sawbwas; Mirs, Raos, & Maharajas. The India Magazine  September 1993

18. De La Rue And Palitana. The Revenue Journal Of Great Britain  4#4:81, 1994

19. Jams And Nizams; Amirs, Raos, And Maharajas: The Robbins Collection Of The Indian Princely States. Guide for exhibition at the Paley Library, Temple University. August 29th-October 14th, 1994

20. Confusingly Similar Names In The Princely States. India Post 29:99, 1995

21. Strong Medicine. The India Magazine  October 1995

22. The Sacred Cows of Bundi.  India Post  30:87, 1996

23. Kalsia State-A new revenue discovery. India Post  32:82, 1998

24. Merchants and Traders. Traveler's India 2#3:17, 1998

25. Kalighat Paintings Documented Bengali Life. Traveler's India  3#1:17, 1999

26. Capturing Picturesque India: European and Indian Artists in British India. Traveler's India   3#3: 4, 1999

27. The Strange Life of William Fraser. Traveler's India   3#3:20, 1999

28. Maharaja Venkat Ramana of Rewa. The Revenue Journal Of Great Britain  X:79, 1999

29. Bahawalpur. India Post  33:131, 1999

30. The Honor of the Maharanas and Mewar's Relationship with Central Powers. Durbar: Journal of the Indian Military History Society 16:153, 1999

31. Jews of Calcutta. Kol India  IX#2: 6, 2000.

32. Medals of the Indian Princely States. Traveler's India 4 #1:24, 2000

33. Painting group explores Rajasthani sites. Traveler's India   4#2, 2000

34 . India: land without Antisemitism. Washington Jewish Week Nov. 9, 2000

35.  Meeting the Maharani of Kota. Traveler's India  4#3, 2000

36. The Camp of Polish refugee Children at Balachadi, Nawanagar. Journal of Indo-Judaic Studies 4:95, 2001

37. The Renaissance of Jewish Life in India Traveler's India  6#1:24, 2002

38. The Fastidious Fiscal Philatelist and the Indian Princely States The Revenue Journal Of Great Britain  XII: 103, 2002

39. The God Given Kingdom of Bahawalpur The Pakistan Study Circle Newletter  4: 3, 2003

40. Jhalawar or how the Fiscal Philatelist became a Cinderella & met Real Princesses India Post 35: 3, 2003

41. Medals of the Indian Princely States.-to be published in Naval Krishna's forthcoming volume in honor of his father Anand Krishna

42. Junagadh [Soruth] India Post [In press]

 

American Council for Southern Asian Art

Three sets of 100 slides with commentary [1998]

Available through the University of Michigan Department of Art History; Attention: Wendy Holden; 150 B Tappen Hall; Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1357. Sets 150, 151, & 152:

150. The Robbins Collection of the Indian Princely States: Paintings, Drawings, Photographs, and Objects

151. The Robbins Collection of the Indian Princely States: Postal and Fiscal Philatelic Items

152. The Robbins Collection of the Indian Princely States: Coins, Medals, Numismatic Items, Military & Court Paraphernalia, Paper Ephemera, and Maps

 

Book Reviews

1.Robert Johnson: Femininity Lost And Regained Council  On  Women In Asian Studies  Newsletter   8 #1, Fall 1990

2 Sudhir Kakar: Intimate Relations: Exploring Indian Sexuality

A. Middle East & South Asia Folklore Newsletter  8 #3, Autumn 1991

B. Paso (Psychoanalytic Social Science) Rev. 1#10 April, 1992

3. S. Nanda: Neither Man Nor Woman: The Hijras Of India Middle East And South Asia Folklore Newsletter 8#3, Autumn1991

 

Publications Under Preparation

1. Korea, a Chhattisgarh state

2. Stamp money and cash coupons of the Indian Princely States

3. African Muslims in India

4. The Nawab of Junagadh's property in Mecca

5. The correspondence of the Ahmadi missionary Mufti Muhammed Sadiq with a society of  “freethinkers”

6. The Jews of India

7. A coffee table volume on the Indian Princes

8. Medicine In The Indian Princely States

9. Oedipal Themes In Hindu Art, Mythology And Society

10 . Capturing picturesque India and colorful Indians: European and Indian Artists in British India

11. Opium and the Princely States

12. Begum Somru

13. Maharaja Ganga Singh of Bikaner

14. Elephants, the Elephant God, and Maharajas

15. Picture Postcards of the Indian Princely States

16. The Mystery of the Deccani Talking Tree

17. Jaipur and its Thikanas

 

The Robbins Collection

1. Indian miniature paintings with examples from many Pahari, Rajput, and Deccani schools as well as Nepalese, Company, and folk paintings

2. Indian fine and decorative arts

3. Photographs and photographic albums, maps, government reports & books from & about the princely states

4. Commemorative medals, military decorations & flags of the Indian Princely States

5. Fiscal documents, fiscal stamps, hundis, stock certificates, coins, cash  coupons, postal history, and postage stamps of the Indian States

6. Shadow figures from India and Southeast Asia

7. Princely States as well as ancient, medieval and Sultanate period Indian coins

8. Books  and artifacts of the Indian Jews; photographs of Indian synagogues

 

Exhibitions from the Collection

Curated by Kenneth Robbins

1. Cardinal Spellman Museum [October 3-December 31, 1989]

2. Gandhi Memorial Center in association with the Embassy of India  [April 13 -June 30, 1991]

3. Washington convention of the Association For Asian Studies [March 1992]

4. Napex, Washington  [June 1994]

5. Temple University  Library [August 29-October 14 1994]

6. Meridian House International, Washington D.C. [October 25-December 30, 1994]

7. National Library Of Medicine [September 1995- January 1996]

8. Columbia University [April-May 1996]

9. Chatham College [March 2000]

10. Special tours of the collection have been made by the Asia Society of Washington, the Columbia University Club of Washington, the Freer & Sackler Gallery docents, the India Club of the World Bank, and the Smithsonian  Resident Associates Program.

 

Past Associations With India

1. Contributing Editor, Highlights: Notes, News and Views on Arts,

History and Letters  of India

2. Visiting Committee, Sackler Gallery [Smithsonian Institution]