| 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
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