The Hidden East India Company Tour Series:
Tipu's Tiger and the India Museum
Sunday 30th October
(Half day afternoon tour)
SOLD OUT
Two museums – Through a visit to the V&A we will explore the rise and fall and legacy of the East India Company's India Museum. See how intimately the V&A and its Asia collections are bound up with the dispersal of objects from the India Museum after the demise of the East India Company.
Here we will conjure images of the Aladdin's cave that was the India Museum in its heyday on Leadenhall Street and hear how the V&A rose up from its ashes. Meet the India Museum's most famous exhibit, Tipu's Tiger. Hear about Tipu Sultan and the story of the Tiger with Dr Susan Stronge, senior curator at the V&A and author of a beautiful book on the subject.
To finish our visit, we would like to offer you fine afternoon tea in good company. Meet with Andrew Redpath, Executive Director of Jeevika Trust, and learn more about the Trust’s work in village India.
Cost
Cost of this half day tour is £29 per person.
Places are limited so do book early to avoid disappointment!
Booking
Please note that this tour involves a fair amount of gentle walking as well as some uneven surfaces. If you have any access requirements please contact the organiser to discuss how we might assist.
Praise received for The Hidden East India Company Tour Series
"The Hidden East India Company day was a huge success. We curators really appreciated your careful organisation of the day, enabling us to concentrate on showing our collections, and the tour party to cover a lot of ground in a relaxed ambience. The group was full of interesting and well-informed people, and were able to contribute some useful comments on our Indian holdings. I hope myself to join one of the other tours, but as an audience member this time.”
Dr Mark Nesbitt
Curator, Economic Botany Collection, Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew
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Dear Leila,
It was a terrific day and I have been meaning to write to thank you. I learned an enormous amount last Friday from the tour and running commentary, and have been inspired to follow up your leads, so much so that, armed with your handouts, tomorrow I shall visit the British Library for the second time this week for full immersion in the works of Ray Desmond!
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Once again many thanks for laying on such an informative and enjoyable day.
Anthony Stockwell
Vice President of the Royal Asiatic Society and Emeritus Professor of Modern History, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Leila,
A big thank you for organising such an interesting and inspiring day. A perfect mix of inspiring talk, interesting people, fascinating artefacts and just enough time in between to re -acquaint myself with the wonderful Kew Gardens.
Well done!
Will Bowen
Polymath, mathematician, theatre designer and question deviser for TV series QI
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Your enthusiasm for the East India Museum and its personalities was deliciously infectious...
I really enjoyed the day, thank you very much indeed.
Gordon Johnson
Historian and President of Wolfson College Cambridge
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I thoroughly enjoyed the day at Kew and I have no critical comments which is very unusual for me. So much so, that I have now booked for the other forthcoming events.
Bina Pandit
Kew event participant
