Subcontinent interest: Latest sale to offer works documenting Indian history underlines huge demand in this market
Chorley’s (25% buyer’s premium) first dedicated Islamic & Indian sale section was based around a single consignment: an East India Company (EIC) archive that came by direct descent from Sir Charles William Rouse Boughton (1747-1821).
Boughton had first gone to India at the age of 17 in 1764 in the employ of the Indian Board in Ben…