Robert Skelton obituary

Museum curator and scholar of Indian art, whose library and archive have been given to the Courtauld InstituteRobert Skelton, who has died aged 93, was for many years a curator in the Indian department of the Victoria and Albert Museum and a leading authority on Indian painting and decorative arts in the Sultanate and Mughal periods (13th to 19th centuries). This was an age rich in cultural interaction between the Persianate court arts of the Muslim rulers and indigenous Indian artistic traditio