Journey from Calcutta to Simla, 1837. By Frances Eden (1801-49). (MSS EUR Photo Eur 325) © The British Library Board.
SAALG Conference July 2011
About SAALG
The South Asia Library Group was formed in 1967 and in 2001 changed its name to South Asia Archive and Library Group to acknowledge the presence of a number of archivists amongst its members. It consists of representatives of libraries, archives and other institutions in the United Kingdom with some degree of specialisation in South Asian Studies.
The aims of the Group are concerned with the acquisition and use of books, manuscripts and archival materials in the field of South Asian Studies, co-operative bibliographical projects and other matters which can be served by common consultation. The Group meets twice annually.
Squirrels in a plane tree, by Abu'l Hasan, Indian Albums, Mughal, c.1605-08. (Johnson Album 1/30) © The British Library Board.
Contacts
Chairman:
Helen Porter
Assistant Librarian
Royal Asiatic Society
14 Stephenson Way
London NW1 2HD
Tel: +44 (0)20 7388 4539
Treasurer:
Antonia Moon
Asia Pacific & Africa Collections
The British Library
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London NW1 2DB
Tel: +44 (0)20 7412 7842
Puraj Ragini. Hyderabad, Deccan, mid eighteenth century. (Johnson Album 37/9) © The British Library Board.
Minutes of SAALG Meetings
- June 2005
- December 2005
- June 2006
- January 2007
- July 2007
- June 2008
- February 2009 (PDF format, 26KB)
- January 2011 (PDF format, 35KB)
- January 2012 (PDF format, 308KB)
- July 2012 (PDF format, 230KB)
Newsletters and Conference Presentations
The Newsletter has been discontinued after the decision made at SAALG's 80th Conference in February 2009. It was decided to use the Group's Blog for the timely dissemination of news.
Presentations at SAALG Conference
London, January 2011
Delegates who attended SAALG's Borderlands Conference at the Royal Asiatic Society in January will be delighted to see Andrew Jarvis' article published in Modern Asian Studies (v.45, no.4, July 2011). Entitled 'The Myriad-Pencil of the Photographer' : seeing, mapping and situating Burma in 1855 (pp. 791-823), it questions how Tripe's photographs should be interpreted today.
A D Jarvis, Burma through the lens of Linnaeus Tripe (1)
Burma through the lens of Linnaeus Tripe (2)
Oxford, 2 July 2010
Crispin Branfoot, Professions and processions in 19th century south India, a "Company" album in SOAS Library
Related article published in Orientations, November 2007: Painting processions, social and religious landscape of Southern India in a "Company" album
Cambridge, 3 July 2009
Christopher Gill, Veterinary material in the National Library of Scotland’s India Papers Collection- A previously neglected resource for historical research
Karen Mills, Digilab - the latest tools and technologies for teaching and learning and their application in libraries and archives
Details of Moghal painting by Abu'l Hasan © The British Library Board.
