Simon DigbySimon Digby (1932-2010) was one of the foremost scholars on pre-Mughal India as well as a prolific writer, translator and collector. He was Honorary Librarian of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, curator in the Department of Easern Art of the Ashmolean Museum, and a member of the Oriental Institute of the University of Oxford. His contribution to the study of Indian history can be seen through his wide-ranging research into fields as disparate as art and architecture, travellers' tales and religious tracts, numismatics and furniture, Kipling and Qalandars, toys and fairy tales. Read More Read Less