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Robert Elgood
Robert Elgood
Cataloguing the collections of arms in the Mehrangarh Fort, Jodhpur
Dr Elgood has a BA in Islamic History from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London 1975-1979 (where he is now a Research Associate in the Art and Archaeology Dept.) and a DPhil from Oxford University in Indian Anthropology. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. For some years he was also a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Society. In 1986 he was elected to the Meyrick Society and 1996 he was elected a member of the Rowland Club.
The Nehru Trust grant funded a return trip to India. Since then I have been back a couple of times a year to try and complete this substantial project. The trip seeded two books and a huge amount of work. The grant also helped fund a translation team in Mehrangarh which worked on finding relevant bahis and translating texts from Marwari, Gujerati and Marathi.
Dr Elgood was appointed Research Fellow, Eastern European, Islamic and Asian Arms and Armour at the Wallace Collection in 2006 having been commissioned to write a catalogue of the Oriental Arms. The work was awarded a Leverhulme Grant. While at the Wallace Collection he arranged the programme and funding for an Indian Conservator to come from Mehrangarh Fort, Jodhpur to study at the Wallace Collection, the V&A and at the Royal Armouries, Leeds; and organised a tour of arms museums and armouries in India for museum experts. He has established and funded a research team in Mehrangarh Fort currently translating arms documents from Marwari and Marathi. He is completing catalogues of the arms in Mehrangarh Fort, Jodhpur; and in Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum, Jaipur.Dr Elgood was appointed Research Fellow, Eastern European, Islamic and Asian Arms and Armour at the Wallace Collection in 2006 having been commissioned to write a catalogue of the Oriental Arms. The work was awarded a Leverhulme Grant. While at the Wallace Collection he arranged the programme and funding for an Indian Conservator to come from Mehrangarh Fort, Jodhpur to study at the Wallace Collection, the V&A and at the Royal Armouries, Leeds; and organised a tour of arms museums and armouries in India for museum experts. He has established and funded a research team in Mehrangarh Fort currently translating arms documents from Marwari and Marathi. He is completing catalogues of the arms in Mehrangarh Fort, Jodhpur; and in Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum, Jaipur.
