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Illustration of an Indian woman holding a flower
Splendours of the Subcontinent: Four centuries of South Asian Paintings and Manuscripts: The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace
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The Vedam in Shanscrit / copied at Benares 1776.

1776

RCIN 1047561

These 18 gatherings of Sanskrit texts were among the earliest Hindu religious manuscripts to arrive in Britain. John Walsh, a former East India Company officer, presented them to George III in 1784. He accompanied the gift with an outline of his criticisms of Warren Hastings (whose portrait is in this section).
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