Introduction / Allysa B. Peyton and Katherine Anne Paul -- "Relating to a country so distant": collecting South Asian arms and armor at the Tower of London during the nineteenth century / Natasha Bennett -- Objects across empire: the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto / Deepali Dewan -- Colonial collecting in Ceylon: dispersing the Hugh Nevill collections across the British Isles / Sushma Jansari -- "We want quality and condition" : theformation of Chester Beatty's South Asian manuscripts and miniatures collection / Hyder Abbas -- Collecting with éclat: Coomaraswamy and the framing of Indian art in American museums / Brinda Kumar -- Nasli Heeramaneck: the consummate collector and connoisseur / Pratapaditya Pal --Masterworks of South Asian art at the Newark Museum: from missionaries, merchants, and medical women and men / Katherine Anne Paul -- Collecting and curating Indian art in Southeast Asia: the Asian Civilisations Museum andthe Indian Heritage Centre, Singapore / Gauri Parimoo Krishnan -- Returning "home": the journey and afterlife of repatriated objects / Melody Rod-Ari.