The Mohan Khokar Dance Collection of India is the most comprehensive compilation on the history and heritage of Indian dance. As the single largest archival compilation on the dance traditions and its history, it is an important source material for research and reconstruction.

An inventory is enclosed. Click Material.

The Collector (1924-99) desired it be organised for use by students, scholars, researchers. His main objective was to show the wealth and range of Indian dance, in its entirety. While the major thrust is on classical forms and their history, contemporary crafts expressions (dolls, masks, artefacts) besides several specimens of how dance is used in communications, including advertising.

The Collection has a long history but is looking for a suitable home. It needs to be set-up as a national resource center whereby students, researchers, critics and scholars can use the material and write books, monographs and other sources of dissemination. The material is vast and extensive, including audio and video. Thus, documentary films on the dance greats too can be made based on this material.