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- Michael_D._Willis abstract "Michael Willis is an Indologist and historian at the British Museum in London, England. He is curator of the early south Asian and Himalayan collections in the Department of Asia. Born in Vancouver, Canada, and raised in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, Willis took his B.A. degree at the University of Victoria where he studied with Siri Gunasinghe and Alan Gowans. Travelling to the University of Chicago, he studied with J. A. B. van Buitenen and Pramod Chandra, receiving his doctoral degree in 1988 after periods in India and Cyprus. He taught at SUNY New Paltz before joining the British Museum in 1994.Willis's main research interest has been the cultural, political and religious history of north India from the fifth to the thirteenth centuries. He has published on the inscriptions of central India and its early temple architecture. After that, he researched the Buddhist history of India and produced a catalogue of reliquaries and related materials in the British Museum and Victoria and Albert Museum. Concurrently Willis developed an interest in Tibet and published a popular book on the subject. The dust-jacket contains biographical data which has been used here. More recently, Willis has turned his attention to the Gupta dynasty, publishing a monograph on Hindu ritual and the development of temples as land-holding institutions, The Archaeology of Hindu Ritual (2009).Willis is a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and an Hon. Research Fellow at Cardiff University.".
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- Michael_D._Willis comment "Michael Willis is an Indologist and historian at the British Museum in London, England. He is curator of the early south Asian and Himalayan collections in the Department of Asia. Born in Vancouver, Canada, and raised in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, Willis took his B.A. degree at the University of Victoria where he studied with Siri Gunasinghe and Alan Gowans. Travelling to the University of Chicago, he studied with J. A. B.".
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