Aurel Stein and the Kiplings

Biographies of the renowned linguistic scholar and archaeological explorer Sir Marc Aurel Stein (1862–1943) inevitably yet briefly refer to the role played by John Lockwood Kipling (1837–1911), as curator of the Lahore Museum—with its extensive collection of ancient Gandharan Greco-Buddhist sculpture—in exciting Stein’s interests in and theories of what likely lay buried under the sands of the Taklamakan Desert. A more insistent focus on the coalescing influences in the Stein-Kipling relationship, including a subsequent line of evident inspiration from Stein to the internationally famed author and Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling (Lockwood’s son; 1865–1936), helps to synthesize some of the highlights of Stein’s first expedition into the remote Tarim Basin of Chinese Turkestan, including and involving the forgeries manufactured by the Uyghur treasure-seeker Islam Akhun

Archaeology · Art · Art history · Buddhism · Sculpture · Tarim basin · Treasure · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations · Eurasian Exchange Networks · History · Linguistics and Cultural Studies

• Sand-buried ruins of Khotan

  Open Access•Aurel Stein, Charles Lang Freer•1903

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• Monuments, Objects, Histories

  Tapati Guha-Thakurta•Monuments, Objects, Histories•2004

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• Life along the Silk Road

  Susan Whitfield, Susan Whitfield‐gabrieli•Life along the Silk Road•2015

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• Lockwood Kipling's Role and the Establishment of the Mayo School of Art (1875–1898)

  Open Access•Tahir Kamran•Journal of the Royal Asiatic…•2015

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• Science "Gone Native" in Colonial India

  Gyan Prakash•Representations•1992

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• Aurel stein - pioneer of the silk road

  Annabel Walker•Asian Affairs•1996

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