Diary Dates
BACSA Newsletter readers, family and friends may be interested in the following events:
| Date / Time | Event | Place |
On now (until Monday 4 May 2026)   | ‘Women of Influence: The Pattle Sisters’ An exhibition about the lives and work of the seven Anglo-Indian sisters whose influence in art, literature, photography and society ‘extended from Calcutta to Kensington, and from the salons of Little Holland House to the Bloomsbury Group’. | Watts Gallery, Down Lane, Compton, Guildford GU3 1DQ Click here for further details. |
On now (until Sunday 21 June 2026)   | ‘Painters, Ports and Profits: Artists and the East India Company, 1750-1850’ Exhibition featuring ‘over 100 objects from Asia’, including ‘rich opaque watercolours, large-scale oil portraits, evocative architectural drafts’and a ‘spectacular’ 37′ long scroll depicting the city of Lucknow. | Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel Street, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Click here for further details. |
On now (until Sunday 1 Nov 2026)  | ‘Journeys through cloth’ Exhibition of textiles from Karun Thakar’s collection ‘centring on Punjabi baghs and phulkari, traditionally embroidered by young girls and women’ at this National Trust property. | Osterley Park, Jersey Road, London TW7 4RD Click here for further details. |
On now (until Sunday 8 Nov 2026)  | ‘The last Princesses of Punjab’ Exhibition about the ‘Punjabi princess and suffragette icon’ Sophia Duleep Singh, and ‘the women who shaped her’ | Kensington Palace, Kensington Gardens, London W8 4PX. Click here for further details, including registration. |
On now (until Sunday 13 Dec 2026)  | ‘Colonial Views of India’ The ‘first exhibition focusing on photographs and negatives in the Ashmolean’, featuring ‘previously unseen photographs of India by Colonel Eugene Clutterbuck Impey (1830-1904)’ | Ashmolean Museum (Gallery 29), Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2PH. Click here for further details. |
Wednesday 13 May 2026 – Friday 15 May 2026  | ‘The Indentured Labour Route at the Crossroads: Imagining New Futures for the Global Diaspora’ A 3-day conference in Mauritius on ‘Indenture, Migration, Memory, Identity and the Future of the Global Diaspora’ | University of Mauritius, Reduit Click here for further details, including registration. |
Tuesday 26 May 2026, 11:30-13:00  | ‘Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia’ A joint BIHT and Indian Civil Service Society lecture by Sam Dalrymple, followed by (optional) lunch | University Women’s Club, 2 Audley Square, Mayfair, London W1K 1DB. Click here for further details, including registration. |
From Monday 1 Jun 2026, 10:30-15:00   | ‘The Visakhapatnam Cabinet’ Made from padauk wood in the port city of Visakhapatnam c.1760, this ivory-inlaid cabinet (‘the largest and most ornate piece of furniture of its kind in the National Trust’s collection’) returns to display at Kingston Lacy after conservation work at the Royal Oak Foundation Conservation Studio at Knole, Kent. | Kingston Lacy, Wimborne Minster, Dorset. Click here for further details (and directions, eg ‘satnav unreliable; follow B3082 and brown signs’). |
From Monday 8 Jun 2026 – Monday 13 Jul 2026  | ‘The relentless rise of the East India Company’ Lecture tour by the historian William Dalrymple, covering ‘more than two hundred years of tumultuous colonial history, covert political machinations, and bloody resistance’ | Lectures will be held at venues in: Birmingham, Chester, Tunbridge Wells, Guildford, Cardiff, Edinburgh, London, Malvern. Click here for further details (and to purchase tickets). |
Sunday 14 Jun 2026, 2pm-3pm  | ‘Indian Forces Chattri Memorial Service’ Memorial Service in remembrance of ‘the Indian and Nepalese soldiers from Undivided/Prepartitioned India who were cremated in Brighton during the First World War’ | Indian Forces Chattri Memorial, Patcham Down, Standean Lane, Brighton BN1 8ZB. Refreshments afterwards at Hove Albion Football Club, American Express Stadium, Village Way, BN1 9BL. Click here for further details. |
Saturday 27 Jun 2026, 10:00am-15:00pm  | ‘FIBIS Open Meeting and AGM’ FIBIS (Families in British India Society) Open Day and AGM. Lectures include ‘Curzon’s Chosen Men’ (Alan Dillon); ‘Mutiny 1857 – the Indian Perspective’ (Rosie Llewellyn-Jones) and ‘With Ox Carts & Dooli Bearers – Medals of India to 1947’ (Nathan Smith) | Union Jack Club, Sandell Street, London SE1 8UJ. Click here for further details, including registration. |
From Wednesday 1 Jul 2026 – Friday 31 Jul 2026  | ‘South Asian Heritage Month 2026’ Launched at Cardiff University’s Bute Building on 26 April 2026, this year’s SAHM theme is ‘#UnityInDiversity’. ‘Our histories are different. Our experiences are varied. But the values that run through us, family, resilience, hospitality, belonging, connect us all. This July, we celebrate exactly that’. | Use ‘#UnityInDiversity’ ‘#SouthAsianHeritageMonth’ and ‘#SAHM2026’ on social media to sign up to the SAHM Newsletter, find out how to get involved, and learn about planned SAHM events.  |
From Tuesday 8 Sep 2026 – Sunday 7 Mar 2027  | ‘A Mughal Songbook: Art, Music and Empire’ An exhibition of ‘treasures from the vibrant world of song, poetry and performance of Mughal South Asia from around 1750 to 1850’ . | Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1RB. Click here for further details. |
From Saturday 19 Sep 2026 – Sunday 31 Jan 2027  | ‘Sunil Gupta: Life with a Camera, 1970 – Now’ This major survey exhibition will reveal Sunil Gupta’s (b. 1953, New Delhi) ‘pioneering contribution to photography over five decades… in Delhi, Montreal, New York and London’. | Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge, Castle Street, Cambridge CB3 0AQ. Click here for further details. |
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