Marguerite Milward

In 1907 Marguerite Milward moved to Paris to study at the Academie Colorossi and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, becoming one of the French sculptor Antoine Bourdelle's first students.

[3] Milward's first visit to India was in 1926, during which time she stayed with the Bengali poet and social reformer Rabindranath Tagore at Shantineketan.

[6] In 1929, she returned to Shantineketan to teach sculpture, during which time she met Bengali physical anthropologist Biraja Sankar Guha, the first director of the Anthropological Survey of India.

[6] Her first expedition lasted for eight months, from 1935 to 1936, sailing for Mumbai in November 1935 [6] In 1936, she returned to Britain for an exhibition of the busts she made at the India House, London.

Her book Artist in Unknown India details her travels across the country, including her meeting with the Nizam of Hyderabad, Mir Osman Ali Khan, the anthropologist Verrier Elwin and Prime Minister of Nepal, Juddha Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana.

Plaster bust depicting a 16-year old Chenchu boy, made by Marguerite Milward in 1936, on display at Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.