Identify the correct statements from below:
(A) John Marshall and Alfred Foucher publish The Monuments of Sanchi in the twentieth century.
(B) The Government Museum was established in Madras in 1851.
(C) Alexander Cunningham publish the Conservation Manual in 1881.
(D) In 1880, H.H. Cole was appointed as the Curator of Ancient Monuments.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → (A), (B) and (D) only
(A) John Marshall and Alfred Foucher publish The Monuments of Sanchi in the twentieth century. Correct. The Monuments of Sanchi came out in 1914, a landmark in the study of the stupa at Sanchi.
(B) The Government Museum was established in Madras in 1851. Correct. It came after the Indian Museum, Calcutta, founded in 1814.
(C) Alexander Cunningham publish the Conservation Manual in 1881. Incorrect. The Conservation Manual was published by John Marshall in 1923. Cunningham’s own work on Sanchi was Bhilsa Topes, published in 1854.
(D) In 1880, H.H. Cole was appointed as the Curator of Ancient Monuments. Correct. Cole believed that museums should keep plaster-cast copies of sculpture, while the originals should remain where they had been found.
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