ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses a previously unknown collection of Gandhāran art dating to the colonial period: the collection of the Political House at Malakand, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. These Gandhāran pieces collected in Swat in the early 1930s remain cemented in the walls of the house garden. Original correspondence between Captain Cobb and the director of the ASI Frontier Circle sheds light on the genesis of the collection. Other important documents also kept in the residence are analyzed to better understand how Gandhāran sculptures were collected in this period and how they were interpreted by the colonial administration.
