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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
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]