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Lessons from Udaipur | Painted and printed maps on exhibit at the City Palace Museum

Lessons from Udaipur | Painted and printed maps on exhibit at the City Palace Museum

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An old map of Mewar  | Photo Credit: MMCF Six months ago, when curator Shailka Mishra and art conservators Anuja Mukherjee and Bhasha Shah began browsing the maps at the Maharana of Mewar Charitable Foundation’s research centre in Udaipur, they found them in a sorry state — stored with the limited knowledge and materials available […]

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A revolutionary period of Indian map making explored at Asiatic Society of Mumbai’s Mapped! exhibition

A revolutionary period of Indian map making explored at Asiatic Society of Mumbai’s Mapped! exhibition

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Sagar Srivastava, 33, has been fascinated by maps ever since he was a young boy. His father, who was in the merchant navy, would regularly bring home huge navigational chartbooks and tell him about countries around the world. “I started sketching maps on anything I could get my hands on,” the aspiring filmmaker recalls. Today, […]

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