Kenneth X. Robbins
Kenneth X.
Robbins is a psychiatrist,
collector, and independent scholar on South Asia,with particular interest in
maharajas and other Indian princes, as well as the Rajputs, African Muslims,
Chettiyars, Sikhs, missionaries, and Jews in South Asia. He has curated more
than a dozen Indian exhibits and five scholarly conferences dealing with
maharajas and nawabs, painting, women artists and political figures, medicine,
and philately. His most recent exhibition projects deal with African Muslim
elites and Jews in India. In addition to publishing more than seventy articles,
he is co-editor of African Elites in India and is working on a book about the
Princely states of Gujarat and several other volumes about Jews in South Asia.