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Paira Mall (1874-1957) was of Indian descent.
An MD, Paira Mall worked as an agent for Sir Henry Wellcome and was sent to India in 1911 to collect materials for a museum of medical history. Mall was involved in the inception of the India Society in 1910.
In 1925, India Society membership records noted Paira Mall's address as c/o National Bank of India, 26 Bishopsgate, London, EC2.
Ananda Coomaraswamy, E. B. Havell, Christiana Herringham, William Rothenstein, Sir Henry Wellcome.
Allan, Nigel, Pearls of the Orient: Asian Treasures from the Wellcome Library (London: The Wellcome Trust, 2003)
Larson, Frances, An Infinity of Things: How Sir Henry Wellcome Collected the World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)
Photo and other material, Wellcome Library, London