Joseph David Beglar

Joseph David Beglar, or Joseph David Freedone Melik Beglar (1845–1907), was an Armenian-Indian engineer, archaeologist and photographer working in British-India and reporting to the Archaeological Survey of India, known for his images of temples and religious art. He was an assistant of Alexander Cunningham.[1][2]

Ruins of the Southern Gateway, Sanchi in 1875, photographed by Joseph David Beglar.

Works
gollark: It's said that the best way to get advice is to say something subtly wrong so they'll correct you.
gollark: Is it? I think people aren't really sure.
gollark: Public transport in the city I'm near got cut down a lot, but is still running. Which means people are packed more densely into the subway carriages. Which is probably *worse* in terms of spreading disease.
gollark: <@178552839721844736> I've heard different things. Fighting is a learned skill like anything else, and having actual practice through MMA and whatnot is almost certainly better than "I'll just poke them in a vulnerable part" or something.
gollark: So apparently the government is (mostly) closing all schools from Friday, and either cancelling or postponing the exams I was meant to do in twoish months (it's a bit unclear).

References
  1. Armenians in India, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, by Mesrovb Jacob Seth . In order to taste खाज the sweet consists of twelve to sixteen vary thin layer dough-sheets placed over one another. The light yellow colour sweet has wheat-flour, sugar, maida, ghee, cardamom and aniseed as ingredients.Once he visited Silao Located in Naland State Bihar. He himself wrote about this sweet that the delicacy of khaza dated back to The great king Vikramaditya.p.309
  2. 'Archaeologizing' Heritage?: Transcultural Entanglements by Michael Falser, Monica Juneja p.42
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