Shreya Gupta interviews Indian coin expert Jan Lingen on his collection. In this interview Jan Lingen recounts his story of coming to India in his architectural role and developing an interest in Indian coins and studying Indian languages. He talks about the people he met with and worked with on his coin collecting journey and his continuing work with Indian coins in the Netherlands.

Dr Shailendra Bhandare on the Ashmolean Museum’s South Asian coin collections

The Asian Studies Centre was founded in 1982 at St Antony's College and is primarily a co-ordinating organisation which exists to bring together specialists from a wide variety of different disciplines. Geographically, the Centre predominantly covers South, Southeast and East Asia.  The Asian Studies Centre works closely with scholars in the Oriental Institute, the Oxford China Centre, the Contemporary South Asian Studies Programme and the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies (in premises at St Antony's). The Asian Studies Centre is host to the Taiwan Studies Programme, Modern Burmese Studies Programme, the South Asian History Seminar Series and the Southeast Asian Studies Seminar Series.