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Research Interests -The Indian Princes -Medicine in the Indian Princely States -Opium and the Princely States -Stamp money and cash coupons of the Indian Princely States -Picture Postcards of the Indian Princely States -Amb State -The Amirs of Bahawalpur and their ?God-Given Kingdom? -Jaipur and its Thikanas -Maharaja Ganga Singh of BIianer -Late paintings for Mewar and Nathdwara -Korea, a Chhattisgarh state -Begum Somru -Sambhar Shamlat, joint property of Jaipur & Jodhpur, & the British salt monopoly -Popular images of the Indian Freedom Struggle -Oedipal Themes In Hindu Art, Mythology And Society -Elephants, the Elephant God, and Maharajas -The Jews of India -Karbhari Jacob Bapuji of Aundh -Maurice Frydmann in India -Correspondence of the Ahmadi missionary Mufti Muhammed Sadiq with a society of 'freethinkers'

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Publications * Published articles 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 Anti-Semitism. 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 Newsletter 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 in Naval Krishna & Manu Krishna The Ananda-Vana of Indian Art [Dr. Ananda Krishna Felicitation Volume] 2004 pp. 455-70. 42. Junagadh State and the Attachment Scheme India Post 163: 144, 2005 43. Stamps as Money-The Saurashtra Record India Post 164: 29, 2006 44. African Elites in India Arts of Asia September-October 2006 45. The Nawab of Junagadh's property in Mecca India Post [in press] 46. A Seventeenth century Deccani Talking Tree? and other composite images in the ?Parallel Universes? of a Collector and Visvamitra. This article will be published in the felicitation volume for Professor Ohri. 47. Historical time line of the Jews of Kerala. American Sephardi Report [In press] African Elites in India: Habshi Amarat Book co-edited with John McLeod Published by Mapin 2006 Chapters co-written by Kenneth Robbins : African Elites in India Africans in the Medieval Deccan Africans in Medieval North India, Bengal, and Gujarat Africans in Mughal India and the Princely States Identifying Africans in India 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 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, picture postcards, 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; 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. American Sephardi Federation [2006] 11. Special tours of the collection have been made by the Asia Society of Washington, the Columbia University Club of Washington, the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, the India Club of the World Bank, the Smithsonian Institution?s Freer & Sackler Gallery docents, the Smithsonian Resident Associates Program and U.S. Department of State Foreign Service Institute.

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