Dear Colleagues,

Jerry's death is indeed a great loss to our discipline. His first degree was in Sanskrit at Oxford. I too met him in Pune (in 1969) and subsequently co-operated with him on some textual aspects of the mounting of the Mewar Rāmāyaṇa on the web. He was always a friendly and helpful colleague.

John

Professor J.L. Brockington
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On 04/10/2021 19:34, Robert Goldman wrote:

Dear Colleagues,

Just noted with sadness the obituary for the noted historian of Indian art, Jerry Losty, the long time curator of Indian visual materials at he BL. Jerry and I were graduate students together in Pune (then Poona) in the late ‘60s and became friends. He was very scholarly and real resource on Indian art and always very generous to his colleagues. In more recent times the was of great help to us in securing permission from the BL to reproduce seven slides from the Mewar Rāmāyaṇa to use respectively as the cover art and frontispieces of our Princeton University Press translation of Vālmīki.

His passing represents a loss to the world of Indian Art History as well as to his family and friends.

He will be missed.

https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/art-historian-jerry-losty-passes-away-in-london/cid/1833173

Bob Goldman

Dr. R. P. Goldman

William and Catherine Magistretti Distinguished Professor Emeritus and

Professor in the Graduate School
Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies MC # 2540
The University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-2540
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