GALLERY
Prince Hall
The gallery displays arms and armour of yesteryears, from the collections of VMH. It includes two brass-made French canons seized by Robert Clive, the Military General of the British East India Company, from the French troops in the Battle of Plassey (1757) and a Plaster of Paris model of the battlefield of Plassey. A brass gun belonging to Maharaja Krishna Chandra Ray and a few bronze half-busts are a part of the displayed artefacts in this gallery.
Other artefacts like khanjar, Shields, Katar, matchlock guns etc are also the prime attraction of the gallery.
Prince Hall
French gun Captured by Colonel Robert Clive, from French troops in alliance with the Nawab of Bengal, Siraj-ud-Daula, in the Battle of Plassey, 23 June 1757.
Charles Wilkins (1749-1836), a distinguished Indologist, founding member of Asiatic Society, who was first among the European scholar to bring the wealth and richness of Sanskrit library works to the scholarly world.
