https://indianpedia.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Delhi_Archaeological_SocietyDelhi Archaeological Society - Revision history2026-07-31T05:44:36ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.45.4https://indianpedia.org/index.php?title=Delhi_Archaeological_Society&diff=198015&oldid=prev>Jonesey95 at 18:45, 12 April 20212021-04-12T18:45:45Z<p></p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2019}}<br />
{{Use Indian English|date=February 2019}}<br />
The '''Delhi Archaeological Society''' was an organisation active between the years 1847 and 1854 which focused on the history of the city of [[Delhi]] and its environs. Its first secretary was the editor of the ''Delhi Gazette'', Henry Cope. It eventually grew to have around 120 members which included British scholars such as [[E. C. Bayley]], [[Alexander Cunningham]], [[Henry Miers Elliot|Henry Elliot]], and [[Aloys Sprenger|A. Sprenger]]. It also had Indians on its roll such as [[Nawab Zia-ud-din]], [[Sayyid Ahmad Khan]], and scholars of [[Zakir Husain Delhi College|Delhi College]]. The society maintained a museum and a journal which published only two volumes (in 1850 and 1852).{{sfn|Singh|2004|p=16}}<br />
<br />
The society conducted an excavation of Firuzabad in 1847 and undertook the repair of the [[Jantar Mantar, New Delhi|Jantar Mantar observatory]] between 1852 and 1853. Its most notable contribution was a project to map Delhi's archaeological monuments and correlating them with references in Persian sources.{{sfn|Singh|2004|p=16}} One of the by-products of the Delhi Archaeological Society was an account of Delhi's historical buildings, places, and people, collated and published as ''Asar-us-Sanadid'' ("Remains of the Past") by Sayyid Ahmad Khan in 1847 followed by a second edition in 1854.{{sfn|Masselos|2011}}<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
* {{cite book|last1=Singh|first1=Upinder|author-link1=Upinder Singh|title=The discovery of ancient India: early archaeologists and the beginnings of archaeology|date=2004|publisher=Permanent Black|isbn=9788178240886|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7DRuAAAAMAAJ|language=en}}<br />
* {{cite book|last1=Masselos|first1=Jim|title=Beato's Delhi: 1857 and Beyond|date=2011|publisher=Penguin UK|isbn=9789351181996|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s8GpAfifFvEC&pg=PT36|language=en}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Organisations based in Delhi]]</div>>Jonesey95