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The Newsletter of the Ancient India & Iran Trust Issue 12: Autumn 2018 I N D I R A N The newsletter of the Ancient India & Iran Trust Issue 12: Autumn 2018 In this issue Editor’s letter News from the Trust. Katragadda Paddayya, Andrew Goudie, Robin Dennell, Munizha Ahmad-Cooke, Nicholas Barrington Bridget Allchin remembered. James Cormick When I met the Allchins; Plantatio memorialis. Norman Hammond The republication of The Archaeology of Afghanistan. Nicholas Barrington A spotlight on Lahore’s heritage. Joanna Salisbury, Deborah Freeman Fahid The Ralph Pinder-Wilson archive. Gul Rahim Khan On the trail of Taxila’s coins. Benedikt Peschl A veritable temple of learning and more... Sam Lieu Friends of the Trust. James Cormick FitzGerald’s Roses. Editor’s Letter News from the Ancient India & Iran Trust Welcome to the twelfth edition Dennell for their tributes at her on outside expertise to enhance of Indiran, the newsletter of the funeral, which are also published in the accessibility of our collections. Ancient India and Iran Trust. this issue. These three pieces not One such project has been the only describe Bridget and Raymond’s Ralph Pinder-Wilson archive, which Taking up the position of huge contribution to South Asian Deborah Freeman Fahid, who Administrator at the Trust again, archaeology, but also bring to the worked with Pinder-Wilson in his after eight years’ absence, has felt fore the tenacity and strength of later years, has kindly helped us like coming home. I have worked character that Bridget ceaselessly organise. in many places, but there is displayed. nowhere that matches the unique Always an invaluable source of environment of the Trust, and the We also report on two special events support, our network of Friends warmth of the Trust ‘family’. Not to this year to commemorate Bridget continues to thrive. After 10 years mention its legendary, most civilised, and Raymond: the memorial event of taking care of this community, as coffee time at 11 am, hosted by we hosted at Wolfson College in Friends Coordinators, Sandra Mason James Cormick, an institution in March 2018, at which our former and Bill Martin have passed on this himself, with his splendid collection trustee Professor Mike Petraglia baton to our trustee Sam Lieu. We of teas and china. Perhaps we spoke about Bridget’s legacy in Stone look forward to hosting more special could teach the modern workplace Age archaeology; and the planting events for Friends and continuing to a thing or two about enhancing of a Rowan tree in the Trust’s garden develop these relationships. communication and wellbeing! by Will and Paula Allchin, Bridget As well as our Friends events, our and Raymond’s son and daughter- A major absence, of course, is that Friday Lectures remain a permanent in-law. Completing our tribute are of Bridget and Raymond Allchin, fixture. We have been delighted to the recollections of our trustee Sir who came in almost daily when I host a number of speakers who have Nicholas Barrington and Custodian worked here from 2005–2010. Their shared their expertise on a wide James Cormick, who met the Allchins energetic dedication to growing the range of subjects, from classical when working abroad, in Pakistan Trust is reflected in the revered, Indian music to Kushan chronology. and Afghanistan respectively. well-established position it holds Finally, the garden continues to for scholars and others interested in Two publications also feature in delight both staff and visitors. The Ancient India and Iran 40 years since this issue: the new (2019) edition extraordinarily hot summer this year its inception. As you come into work of The Archaeology of Afghanistan, made us appreciate it even more. each day, you can’t help but admire originally edited by Raymond Our Annual Garden party was a the legacy left by the founding Allchin and Norman Hammond and bright, sun-kissed occasion and the trustees, and smile at the touches of published in 1978; and the booklet beautiful plants and flowers were in magic in the Trust’s lovely premises: of talk summaries published by full bloom. We round off this issue, spotting a deer in the orchard, or the Trust following the successful therefore, with a reflection on our being greeted by the delicate purple symposium held in October 2017 Omar Khayyam rose, which we hope flowers of the Himalayan Indigo as on ‘The History of Lahore and and you will enjoy. you open the front door. the Preservation of its Historical Buildings’. Munizha Ahmad-Cooke is the It has been fitting, therefore, to Administrator of the Ancient India As ever, the Trust has attracted come back and edit this issue, mostly and Iran Trust. a range of academic visitors this dedicated to Bridget Allchin. I feel Keep up with our news: like I have said a proper goodbye to year from different institutions, my former employer, who was very disciplines and at various career Blog: www.indiran.org/blog/ good to me. The pieces here remind stages. Professor Gul Rahim Khan, Twitter:@INDIAIRANTRUST us of her formidable character and a numismatist from the University Facebook: www.facebook.com/ the remarkable team that she and of Peshawar, and Benedikt Peschl, AncientIndiaAndIranTrust/ a PhD student in Ancient Iranian Raymond were, both professionally To join our mailing list or become a Studies at SOAS University of and as a couple. Friend, email [email protected] or London, describe the time they have We are grateful to Professor K. call 01223 356841. spent at the Trust this year. Paddayya for his permission to reprint his obituary of Bridget, and to While the Trust continues to be a Professors Andrew Goudie and Robin valuable resource for scholars, we are also fortunate to be able to draw 2 INDIRAN the newsletter of the Ancient India & Iran Trust Bridget Allchin remembered 10 February 1927 – 27 June 2017 A spokesperson par on the Late Stone Age of Southern hunter-gatherer groups such as the Africa at the Institute of Archaeology Bushmen and Hottentots, Chenchus, excellence for South in London under the supervision of Veddas, Semangs and Australian Asian archaeology Frederick Zeuner. Around this time, aborigines for reconstructing Late Raymond commenced his doctoral Stone Age lifeways. K. Paddayya research on the early cultures In his well-known book Roots of of Raichur Doab at the School of Ancient India (1971), Walter A. Oriental and African Studies. They Fairservis Jr. gently reminds his met at one of Zeuner’s lectures American co-workers specialising in and got married shortly thereafter. studies of the Indian subcontinent Thus started their long partnership that ‘most of us have been mere in South Asian archaeology. A full tourists in its presence, seeing and lively account of their road without understanding … [failing] to journey from Iran and Afghanistan recognize that on the subcontinent to India in the very first year of their we are in the midst of an ancient partnership is available in their civilization still living, still vital, still memoir, From the Oxus to Mysore of an importance in our world that in 1951, published in 2012. This was is beyond price’. The Allchin couple the beginning of their numerous from Britain are an outstanding visits to various parts of South Asia. exception to this unhappy situation, Besides completing her PhD thesis She in fact correctly proposed a which is not totally inapplicable in on the African Stone Age, in the lineal connection between the the case of South Asians themselves. next decade and a half Bridget extinct and surviving hunter-gatherer Raymond and Bridget Allchin were equipped herself with complete groups in the respective regions. spokespersons par excellence for knowledge of South Asian prehistory The two chapters in this book South Asian archaeology in the both by visiting major sites and her dealing with India and Sri Lanka West for well over half a century own discovery of several Middle read extremely well, even now, and in teaching, research, writing and Palaeolithic and Mesolithic sites represent the first major attempt in other promotional matters. They in Peninsular India and Sri Lanka. South Asian ethnoarchaeology. together mastered the region’s early She published several important In the 1970s, Bridget undertook a past, with Raymond (d. 4 June 2010) research papers including a synthesis multidisciplinary research project in specialising in protohistory and early of the Indian Stone Age sequence the Rajasthan desert in collaboration historic archaeology, and Bridget (Journal of the Royal Anthropological with the late K.T.M. Hegde of Baroda taking charge of prehistory. Sadly, Institute, 1963). University and the geographer now Bridget, too, has passed away in A major contribution made by Andrew Goudie of Oxford University. Norwich on 27 June 2017 at the age Bridget to the prehistory of the This project aimed to reconstruct of 90. tropical lands is a comparative study the Quaternary environmental Bridget was born in Oxford on 10 of the Late Stone Age (Mesolithic) history and Stone Age adaptations. February 1927. After completing hunter-gatherer societies of sub- Their field studies, the results of her early education in England, Saharan Africa, South and Southeast which appeared in print as a major she moved with her parents to Asia and Australia. This culminated in monograph entitled The Prehistory South Africa where she developed her famous book The Stone-Tipped and Palaeogeography of the Great an interest in the study of simple Arrow (1966). Indian Desert (1978), showed that societies. She enrolled herself at Although the lithic industries the area witnessed two major wet the University of Cape Town and of all these far-flung areas are periods separated by dry phases. completed a full-fledged university characterised by microlithic The Stone Age groups occupied sand degree in anthropology and traditions, they show tremendous dunes overlooking shallow water archaeology.
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