Government Museum Chennai
Colonial-era public museum with Amaravati Buddhist sculptures, Chola bronzes and galleries.
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This guide to the Government Museum in Egmore, Chennai, follows the carved limestone of the Great Stupa at Amaravati, a Buddhist monument split between Madras and London in the eighteen fifties. You'll meet the surveyor Colin Mackenzie, the official Walter Elliot who dug the panels out, and the curator Edward Balfour who raised the alarm about them. It also asks why the share London called inferior fared differently from the one that stayed. Best heard in the Amaravati gallery.
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