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Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish, 1877-1947 (art historian)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1877 - 1947

Biography

Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy was a Ceylonese Tamil philosopher and metaphysician, as well as a pioneering historian and philosopher of Indian art, particularly art history and symbolism, and an early interpreter of Indian culture to the West.

Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:

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A. K. C’s galley proofs, 1942-1946

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9950/1/1/15
Scope and Contents

Containing "Am I My Brother's Keeper', 1946 ed, and ‘Understanding and reunion: an Oriental perspective’, 1942

Dates: 1942-1946
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Papers of S. Durai Raja Singam, including a collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy / Collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy / Works
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Additions to Bibliography, c. 1945-1947

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9950/1/3/2
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Singam's collection on Coomarasawmy, including various of AKC's publications, images relating to him, biographical material and items on his family.

Also contains manuscript and typescript letters and research concerned principally with Durai Raja Singam's work on Gandhi and Ananda Coomaraswamy, accompanied by a short account book.

Dates: c. 1945-1947
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Papers of S. Durai Raja Singam, including a collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy / Collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy / Biographical
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America and India, 1923

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9950/1/1/11
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Singam's collection on Coomarasawmy, including various of AKC's publications, images relating to him, biographical material and items on his family.

Also contains manuscript and typescript letters and research concerned principally with Durai Raja Singam's work on Gandhi and Ananda Coomaraswamy, accompanied by a short account book.

Dates: 1923
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Papers of S. Durai Raja Singam, including a collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy / Collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy / Works
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Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy: A select bibliography, 1984

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9950/1/1/20
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Singam's collection on Coomarasawmy, including various of AKC's publications, images relating to him, biographical material and items on his family.

Also contains manuscript and typescript letters and research concerned principally with Durai Raja Singam's work on Gandhi and Ananda Coomaraswamy, accompanied by a short account book.

Dates: 1984
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Papers of S. Durai Raja Singam, including a collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy / Collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy / Works
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Art and Craftsmanship, 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9950/1/1/8
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Singam's collection on Coomarasawmy, including various of AKC's publications, images relating to him, biographical material and items on his family.

Also contains manuscript and typescript letters and research concerned principally with Durai Raja Singam's work on Gandhi and Ananda Coomaraswamy, accompanied by a short account book.

Dates: 1920
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Papers of S. Durai Raja Singam, including a collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy / Collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy / Works
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Biographical documents, c. 1945-1947

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9950/1/3/1
Scope and Contents

Largely concerning his father, Mutu Coomara Swamy Mudeliar

Dates: c. 1945-1947
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Papers of S. Durai Raja Singam, including a collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy / Collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy / Biographical
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Contributions to the Geology of Ceylon, 1902-1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9950/1/1/2
Scope and Contents

Compiled photocopies from various works

Dates: 1902-1905
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Papers of S. Durai Raja Singam, including a collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy / Collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy / Works
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Coomaraswamiana, 1960

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9950/1/1/16
Scope and Contents

File containing duplications of various of Coomaraswamy’s works and translations

Dates: 1960
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Papers of S. Durai Raja Singam, including a collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy / Collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy / Works
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Coomaraswamy – a collector’s guide, c. 1976-1980

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9950/1/1/19
Scope and Contents

A compilation of title pages and acknowledgements from works that Coomaraswamy wrote or contributed to

Dates: c. 1976-1980
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Papers of S. Durai Raja Singam, including a collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy / Collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy / Works
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Copy of drawing ‘Sudarsanā’, 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9950/1/5/16
Scope and Contents

Reproduction of image

Dates: 1905
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Papers of S. Durai Raja Singam, including a collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy / Collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy / Images
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Dancing and Drama, 1922

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9950/1/1/9
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Singam's collection on Coomarasawmy, including various of AKC's publications, images relating to him, biographical material and items on his family.

Also contains manuscript and typescript letters and research concerned principally with Durai Raja Singam's work on Gandhi and Ananda Coomaraswamy, accompanied by a short account book.

Dates: 1922
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Papers of S. Durai Raja Singam, including a collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy / Collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy / Works
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Dancing and the Drama, 1922

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9950/1/1/10
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Singam's collection on Coomarasawmy, including various of AKC's publications, images relating to him, biographical material and items on his family.

Also contains manuscript and typescript letters and research concerned principally with Durai Raja Singam's work on Gandhi and Ananda Coomaraswamy, accompanied by a short account book.

Dates: 1922
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Papers of S. Durai Raja Singam, including a collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy / Collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy / Works
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Domestic Handicraft and Culture, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9950/1/1/5
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Singam's collection on Coomarasawmy, including various of AKC's publications, images relating to him, biographical material and items on his family.

Also contains manuscript and typescript letters and research concerned principally with Durai Raja Singam's work on Gandhi and Ananda Coomaraswamy, accompanied by a short account book.

Dates: 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Papers of S. Durai Raja Singam, including a collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy / Collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy / Works
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Indian art in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9950/1/1/7
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Singam's collection on Coomarasawmy, including various of AKC's publications, images relating to him, biographical material and items on his family.

Also contains manuscript and typescript letters and research concerned principally with Durai Raja Singam's work on Gandhi and Ananda Coomaraswamy, accompanied by a short account book.

Dates: 1918
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Papers of S. Durai Raja Singam, including a collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy / Collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy / Works
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Kandyan art, 1906

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9950/1/1/4
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Singam's collection on Coomarasawmy, including various of AKC's publications, images relating to him, biographical material and items on his family.

Also contains manuscript and typescript letters and research concerned principally with Durai Raja Singam's work on Gandhi and Ananda Coomaraswamy, accompanied by a short account book.

Dates: 1906
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Papers of S. Durai Raja Singam, including a collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy / Collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy / Works
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Mahatma, 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9950/1/1/14
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Singam's collection on Coomarasawmy, including various of AKC's publications, images relating to him, biographical material and items on his family.

Also contains manuscript and typescript letters and research concerned principally with Durai Raja Singam's work on Gandhi and Ananda Coomaraswamy, accompanied by a short account book.

Dates: 1939
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Papers of S. Durai Raja Singam, including a collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy / Collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy / Works
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Military origin of the minuet, 1926

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9950/1/1/12
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Singam's collection on Coomarasawmy, including various of AKC's publications, images relating to him, biographical material and items on his family.

Also contains manuscript and typescript letters and research concerned principally with Durai Raja Singam's work on Gandhi and Ananda Coomaraswamy, accompanied by a short account book.

Dates: 1926
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Papers of S. Durai Raja Singam, including a collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy / Collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy / Works
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Notebook, c. 1900-1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9950/1/1/17
Scope and Contents

Notes and some Sanskrit passages copied by Coomaraswamy

Dates: c. 1900-1920
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Papers of S. Durai Raja Singam, including a collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy / Collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy / Works
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On Ceylon Rocks & Graphite, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9950/1/1/1
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Singam's collection on Coomarasawmy, including various of AKC's publications, images relating to him, biographical material and items on his family.

Also contains manuscript and typescript letters and research concerned principally with Durai Raja Singam's work on Gandhi and Ananda Coomaraswamy, accompanied by a short account book.

Dates: 1900
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Papers of S. Durai Raja Singam, including a collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy / Collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy / Works
 Fonds

Papers of S. Durai Raja Singam, including a collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9950
Scope and Contents

Singam's collection on Coomarasawmy, including various of AKC's publications, images relating to him, biographical material and items on his family.

Also contains manuscript and typescript letters and research concerned principally with Durai Raja Singam's work on Gandhi and Ananda Coomaraswamy, accompanied by a short account book.

Dates: 1863-1984
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library
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'Read at my Birthday dinner, Boston, Aug. 22', 1947-8-22

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9950/1/3/3
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Singam's collection on Coomarasawmy, including various of AKC's publications, images relating to him, biographical material and items on his family.

Also contains manuscript and typescript letters and research concerned principally with Durai Raja Singam's work on Gandhi and Ananda Coomaraswamy, accompanied by a short account book.

Dates: 1947-8-22
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Papers of S. Durai Raja Singam, including a collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy / Collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy / Biographical
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Recent Marine Clays at Kuchavelli Ceylon, 1905-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9950/1/1/3
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Singam's collection on Coomarasawmy, including various of AKC's publications, images relating to him, biographical material and items on his family.

Also contains manuscript and typescript letters and research concerned principally with Durai Raja Singam's work on Gandhi and Ananda Coomaraswamy, accompanied by a short account book.

Dates: 1905-11
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Papers of S. Durai Raja Singam, including a collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy / Collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy / Works
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Reproduction of portrait of Stella Bloch by Coomaraswamy

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9950/1/5/25
Scope and Contents

Reproduction of image

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Papers of S. Durai Raja Singam, including a collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy / Collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy / Images
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The Bee-Song of Sur Das, 1926

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9950/1/1/13
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Singam's collection on Coomarasawmy, including various of AKC's publications, images relating to him, biographical material and items on his family.

Also contains manuscript and typescript letters and research concerned principally with Durai Raja Singam's work on Gandhi and Ananda Coomaraswamy, accompanied by a short account book.

Dates: 1926
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Papers of S. Durai Raja Singam, including a collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy / Collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy / Works
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The taking of toll, 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9950/1/1/6
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Singam's collection on Coomarasawmy, including various of AKC's publications, images relating to him, biographical material and items on his family.

Also contains manuscript and typescript letters and research concerned principally with Durai Raja Singam's work on Gandhi and Ananda Coomaraswamy, accompanied by a short account book.

Dates: 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Papers of S. Durai Raja Singam, including a collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy / Collection on Ananda Coomaraswamy / Works

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