When the V&A’s collections were rational in 1909 and divided into material-based collections and departments, these collections continued to be known as the ‘India Museum’. A new appreciation of early Indian art forms and religious traditions, led to the serious collecting of Hindu, Buddhist and Jain sculpture and of Indian painting in the 1910s and 20s. This continued in a substantial manner in the 1930s, 40s and 50s under the Department’s Keepers, K de Burgh Codrington and W B Archer. In the mid-1950s, the old ‘India Museum’ was demolished, and the collection’s displays, now much reduced in scale, were moved to the main South Kensington site, but the broad pattern of collecting both historical and contemporary sculpture, painting and the decorative arts and design has continued since that date.