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A place where (generally) princes would store "gifts and emblems of honor that they received for their posterity...an archive of objects whose origin and receipt embodied his status and honor"<ref>Cohn. Bernard.S, 1996, Colonialism and its Forms of Knowledge, ''The British in India'', Princeton University Press, New Jersey, pp 119 </ref> |
A place where (generally) princes would store "gifts and emblems of honor that they received for their posterity...an archive of objects whose origin and receipt embodied his status and honor"<ref>Cohn. Bernard.S, 1996, Colonialism and its Forms of Knowledge, ''The British in India'', Princeton University Press, New Jersey, pp 119 </ref> |
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Toshakhana
A place where (generally) princes would store "gifts and emblems of honor that they received for their posterity...an archive of objects whose origin and receipt embodied his status and honor"[1]
East India company made their employees (in colonial India) deposit all gifts (Khilat) in a treasury (toshakhana) and was later traded and swapped with other leaders and Indians at a Durbur or official meeting[2]
Referenced - Colonial India - 19th Century