Rakesh Dattatraya Dhawade

Rakesh Dattatraya Dhawade

Small Study and Research Grant (India)
1999
Museum studies Conservation Arms and Armour Gujarat Rajasthan

Research, study and display of historical arms and armour of Saurashtra, Gujarat, and Rajputana

Assistant Curator, Mahatma Phule Museum, Pune

The study aided by this grant and two subsequent grants the following year has helped me to bring to reality in a practical way my dream of preparing a catalogue of arms and armour in the museums of Maharashtra, and also the cataloguing of arms in the Government of Chennai's collections. Primarily, it allowed me complete the identification of the arms collection in the Mahatma Phule Museum, Pune. The catalogue of this collection will be published shortly (2001).