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THE INDIAN MUSEUM: 1814—1914. 
Tangai, in the Swat Valley. The addition of this collection 
to the Museum raised it to a very high rank among institu¬ 
tions which possess specimens of the Indo-Greek school of 
sculpture. The casts of Asoka inscriptions were, at first, 
exhibited in a small room, built for this purpose, to the 
south of the main building of the Museum. This room had 
to be demolished in 1903 to make room for a new wing of 
the Museum, and the collection of casts was stored in 
godowns. 
At this time the Trustees felt the need of fresh arrange¬ 
ment and classification of the specimens in the Archaeological 
Section. The Government of India, in consultation with the 
late Hofrath Dr. G. Biihler, Professor of Sanskrit in the 
University of Vienna, appointed the late Dr. Theodor Bloch 
as First Assistant to the Superintendent of the Indian Museum 
in 1895. Hitherto, the first assistant had been a zoologist, 
but the Trustees, with the sanction of Government, decided 
to appoint a competent oriental scholar to this post. Dr. 
Bloch joined his appointment on the 30th November, 1896, 
and began work in the archaeological galleries. He was thus 
occupied from the date of his appointment till 1901, when he 
was appointed Archaeological Surveyor, Bengal Circle. Dur¬ 
ing this short period a good deal of scientific work was done 
in this section. Dr. Bloch left the railing of the Bharhut 
stupa as it had been arranged by Cunningham and Anderson, 
but he completely rearranged the sculptures in the Indo- 
Greek Court, in which Gandhara sculptures only were now 
placed. His identifications of many of the scenes from Bud¬ 
dha’s life among Gandhara sculptures of this Museum were 
made long before the publication of M. A. Foucher’s L’Art 
Greco-Bouddhique In the Gupta Gallery he adhered to 
Anderson’s division of Brahmanical and Buddhist sculptures, 
but he proceeded to rearrange the specimens in such a way 
as to make the idea of later Hindu and Buddhist pantheons 
clear even to the uninitiated. On the Buddhist side he 
placed Mathura, Amarawati and Sarnath sculptures in the 
first three niches. He then proceeded to classify specimens 
from Bihar and Bengal. First of all we find images of Bud¬ 
dhas classified according to the different positions of the 
