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- 2022-2023 (Creation)
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Pepita Seth was born in Suffolk in 1942. She studied film editing and gained opportunities to work under film directors like Ted Kotcheff and Stanley Donen. On finding the diary of her grandfather, she decided to trace his life with the British Army in India. She landed in Kolkata in 1970. She travelled from Kolkata to Guruvayur where she became fascinated by the temple arts and rituals of Kerala. For the next nine years, she visited Kerala several times and, in 1979, she settled in Guruvayur. Eventually the Guruvayur Devaswom Board allowed her access to the temple. She has published many books and articles on the temple arts and rituals. In recognition of her services to the fields of art and culture, the Government of India, in 2012, bestowed on her the civilian award of Padma Shri.
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Pepita Seth received her Medal on 24 October 2023. The material associated is:
- Interview with Pepita Seth (2022 Burton Medal Recipient) - copy of a blogpost for 1 July 2022, archival electronic document created September 2024.
- Publicity Poster for conferment of the medal and Seth's lecture, 'In God's Mirror: The Theyyams of Malabar', 24 October 2023, 2 jpeg documents.
- Digital photographs of the lecture and receiving of the medal, 6 photographs.