Simon Everard Digby (17 October 1932 – 10 January 2010) was an English

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al scholar, translator, writer and collector who was awarded the Burton Medal of the

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and was a former

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, the Honorary Librarian of the Royal Asiatic Society and Assistant Keeper in the Department of Eastern Art of the

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. He was also the foremost British scholar of pre- Mughal India.

Early life

Digby was born in 1932 at

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in the Central Provinces, now

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, and was the grandson of William Digby, a member of the Indian Civil Service who, in the late 19th century, wrote extensively about the poverty created by British rule in India. William Digby was a friend of the Bihar barrister-politician

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. His father was Kenelm George Digby, a judge of the Indian High Court, and his mother was Violet M. Kidd, an accomplished painter. As his father was a friend of J. F. Roxburgh, the first headmaster of

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, Digby was sent to that school (1946–1951) after attending a preparatory school in North Wales. In 1951 he went with his mother on a painting expedition to

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, Rajasthan and

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. On his return to Britain he attended

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, (Major and Senior Scholar, Earl of Derby Student),1951–1956; History Tripos, University of Cambridge (1st Class Honours with Distinction) 1956; B.A. (Cantab.) 1956, proceeded M.A. 1962; .'Simon Digby: scholar, writer, linguist and collector' Obituary
in ''

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'' 27 January 2010

Cambridge

Digby knew how to read

Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
''

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, and while at the

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he attended classes in

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and began to publish his own translations of Persian poems. He lived in Whewell's Court and it was here that he welcomed

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when he arrived in

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in the summer of 1954. In 1957 he returned to India for two years sponsored by a grant from the

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. During this time he learned about Indian

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and

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. In 1959 he travelled to

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, where he visited

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, the

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and

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, among other places. On his return to London Digby lived in a tiny house in

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while he studied for a PhD at the

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where he focused on the

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period.

Later years

In 1962 he returned to India where he spent almost a year in

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and another year in

during which period he wrote on Indian history and contributed an article on the Emperor Humayun to the

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. This was his first article for this work. He also contributed to the first volume of ''The Cambridge Economic History of India''. His first major article was ''Dreams and Reminiscences of Dattu Sarvani, a Sixteenth Century Indo-Afghan Soldier'', which sprang from Digby's interest in medieval Indian warfare and Indian

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. On his return to London he became a regular reviewer in The Journal of the

, the Bulletin of the

and ''

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''. From 1968 to 1984 he was the Honorary Librarian of the Royal Asiatic Society, which involved him in ordering and cataloguing the Society's collections. In 1971 Digby hitch-hiked to

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with a friend, who was later the

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World Service's regional manager in Delhi. The two left Venice and travelled by sea to

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and

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, and then on public transport through Turkey to

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and

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. Digby was in

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when war broke out between

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and

, and here he privately published his book ''War-Horse and Elephant in the Delhi Sultanate''. In 1972 he was appointed to a post in the Department of Eastern Art of the

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, which had been created for

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, who had died before he could take it up. This was to be Simon's only full-time paid position, he having benefitted from a number of legacies from deceased relatives. At the Ashmolean, and on a tight budget, he made a series of purchases of Indian decorative arts that were exceptional for their quality. As an ex-officio member of the Oriental Faculty of the

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(1972–2000), Digby was responsible for supervising postgraduate students, and gave instruction in

Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
''

. In addition, he examined postgraduate theses including that of

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. Digby also served as visiting professor in Paris and

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, where he lectured on

and architecture. In 1999 Digby was awarded the Burton Medal of the

The Sir Richard Burton Medal
on the

website and delivered a paper later published privately as ''

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: the Indian Making of an Arabist''. In his latter years Digby lived in a cottage in

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which had been left to him by a relative. From here he made annual visits to India. Simon Digby died of

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on 10 January 2010, having been diagnosed with the disease only on 28 December 2009. He was cremated in India on 14 January 2010 and his ashes immersed in flowing water. Digby was unmarried and left no close relatives. The trustees of his will, in the absence of clear instructions about what to do with his estate, sold his most valuable artefacts and established the Simon Digby Memorial Charity to promote the study of subjects in which Simon Digby was interested. The SDMC is currently funding a post doctoral fellowship at the London School of Oriental and African Studies. The fellow is completing Simon Digby's unfinished academic work and organised an international conference in his honour, held in June 2014. Oxford University Press in Delhi signed a contract in April 2016 for the publication of a ten volume 'collected works of Simon Digby' to be published over the following two years.

Select bibliography

*"The Turani Takya in the Deccan: Patrons, Clients and Services", Conference on Patronage in Mughal India, Universités de Paris, 2001: Proceedings ed. Nalini Delvoye, May 2007. *"Kipling’s Indian Magic", ''Indian International Centre Quarterly'', After 2007. pp. 58–67. *"Beatings and the sensation of release among the followers of Bābā Musāfir", ''Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam'', xxxiii (2007), pp. 487–494. *"Export industries and handicraft production under the Sultans of Kashmir", ''The Indian Economic and Social History Review'', xliv, 4 (2007), pp. 407–423. *‘After Timur came,’ ''JESHO'', 2007, II, pp. 1–66. *"Between ancient and modern in Kashmir: The Rule and Role of Sultans and Sufis (1200/1300-1600)", in ''The Arts of Kashmir'', ed. Pratapaditya Pal (New York 2007), pp. 114–125. * ''Ganj: the Game of treasure from Mughal India''. J.S.A.S. in 2006 or later. *Digby, Simon 'Sufis and Soldiers in Awrangzeb's Deccan', Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2001. * Digby, Simon ''Wonder Tales of South Asia'', Jersey, Orient Monographs, 2000. * Digby, Simon 'War-Horse and Elephant in the Delhi Sultanate', Oxford, Orient Monographs, 1971. * Digby, Simon ''Toy Soldiers and Ceremonial in Post-Mughal India'', Oxford, The Ashmolean Museum, 1982 (with James Harle) * Digby, Simon ''The Royal Asiatic Society : its History and Treasures'', Leyden and London 1979. (edited with Stuart Simmonds)

Articles

*Before Timur came : the Provincialization of the Dehli Sultanate through the Fourteenth Century, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, V0l. 47, Pt. 3, Brill, Leiden/Boston 2004, pp. 298–356. *Bāyazīd Beg Turkmān's Pilgrimage to Makka : a Sixteenth Century Narrative, Īrān XLII, London 2004, in the press. *Obituary of James Coffin Harle, The Independent, London August 2004. *Travels with Robert, Arts of Mughal India: Studies in honour of Robert Skelton, ed. R. Crill et al., London/Ahmadabad 2004, pp. 14–19. *The Hero and his Brother the Wonder-Horse : a Nepali/Celtic Parallel, *De l’Arabie à l’Himalaya : Chemins croisés en hommage à Marc Gaborieau, ed. Véronique Bouillier and Catherine Servan-Schreiber, Paris 2004, pp. 105–21. *Two Captains of the Jawnpur Sultanate, Circumambulations in South Asian History : Essays in Honour of Dirk H.A. Kolff, ed. Jos Gommans and Om Prakash, Brill. Leiden 2003, pp. 159–78. *Le récit du Lieutenant Sterndale, retrouvé et transcrit par Simon Digby, Appendice 1, pp, 225–9; Sayyid Muhammad Mahdi's Visit to Chanderi, circa 1482, Appendice 6, pp, 263–5; La conquête de Chanderi par Babur: traduction d’un extrait du Ta’rīkh-i-Shāhī par Ahmad Yādgār, Appendice 8 273-5, in G. Fussman et al., Chanderi I: Naissance et déclin d’une qasba : Chanderi du Xe au XVIIIe siècle, Paris 2003. *John Gornall, 1932–2002: Bibliography with a Memoir by Simon Digby, Orient Monographs, Jersey 2002. *The Indo-Persian Historiography of the Lodi Sultans, F. Grimal, ed., Les Sources et le temps, Pondichéry, Ēcole Française d’Extrême Orient, 2001 pp. 243–61. *Beyond the Ocean : Perceptions of Overseas in Indo-Persian Sources of the Mughal Period, Studies in History, New Delhi, 1999. 15.2. n.s., pp. 247–59. *Before the Babas came to India : a Reconstruction of the Earlier Lives of Baba Sa’id Palangposh and Baba Musafir in "Wilayat", Iran XXXVI, London 1998, pp. 139–64. *Tulsipur Fair, or the Boy Missionary : a Model for Kipling's "Kim", Indian International Centre Quarterly, New Delhi, Spring 1998, pp. 106–25. *Travels in Ladakh 1820–21 : the Account of Moorcroft's Munshi, Hajji Sayyid Najaf ‘Ali, of his Travels, Asian Affairs, London, xxix, pt III, Oct. 1998, pp. 299–311. *From Ladakh to Lahore in 1820–1821: the Account of a Kashmiri Traveller, Journal of Central Asian Studies, Srinagar, 1997, 8, 1, pp. 3–27. *Illustrated Books of Omens from Gujarat or Rajasthan, Indian Art and Conoisseurship : Essays in Honour of Douglas Barrett, J. Guy ed., Delhi 1996?, pp. 393–360. *The Arabian and Gulf Horse in Medieval India, Furūsiyya, Riyadh

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I, pp. 162–7. *Anecdotes of a Provincial Sufi of the Delhi Sultanate, Khwaja Gurg of Kara, Iran, London XXXII, London 1994, pp. 99–109. *To ride a Tiger or a Wall ? Strategies of Prestige in Indian Sufi Legend, Callewaert and Snell, ed., According to Tradition, Wiesbaden 1994, pp. 99–129. *Some Asian Wanderers in Seventeenth Century India, Studies in History, 9, 2, n.s., New Delhi, 1993, pp. 247–64. *The Mother-of-pearl Overlaid Furniture of Gujarat : an Indian Handicraft of the 16th and 17th Centuries, in Skelton et al., ed., Facets of Indian Art, London, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1992, pp. 213–22. *Flower-Teeth and the Bickford Censer : the identification of a Ninth-century Kashmiri Bronze, South Asian Studies 7, 1991, pp. 37–44. *The Sufi Shaykh and the Sultan : a Conflict of Claims of Authority, Iran XXVIII, London 1990, pp. 71–81. *The Naqshbandis in the Deccan in the Late Seventeenth and Early eighteenth Century A.D.: Baba Palangposh, Baba Musafir and their Adherents, Naqshbandis, cheminement et situation, Istanbul/ Paris 1990, pp. 167–207 *Hawk and Dove in Sufi Combat, C. Melville, ed., Pembroke Papers, Cambridge, 1990, I, pp. 7–25. *An Eighteenth Century Narrative of a Journey from Bengal to England : Munshi Isma'il's New History, C. Shackle, ed., Urdu and Muslim South Asia : Studies in Honour of Ralph Russell, London, SOAS, 1989, pp. 49–66. *The Sufi Shaykh as a Source of Authority in Medieval India, Purusārtha 9, Paris, 1986, pp. 57–77. *Tabbarrukat and Succession among the Great Chishti Shaykhs of the Delhi Sultanate, in Frykenberg, ed., Delhi through the Ages, Delhi 1986, pp. 62–103. *When did the Sun Temple fall down?

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