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- ↑ The India Society Conference on Indian Art https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.59212/2015.59212.The-India-Society-Conference-On-Indian-Art_djvu.txt. Retrieve 22 March 2021.
- ↑ "India Society | Making Britain".