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The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland was founded by the eminent Sanskrit scholar, Henry Thomas Colebrooke, on the 15th March 1823. It received its Royal Charter from King George IV on the 11th August 1824 ‘for the investigation of subjects connected with and for the encouragement of science, literature and the arts in relation to Asia’.

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Call for Nominations for the 2025 Surya P. Subedi Prize

16 April 2025
Nominations for the Prize will close on September 24th 2025

The Surya P. Subedi Prize 2024 – Winners Announced

16 April 2025
The RAS is delighted to announce the winners of the Surya P. Subedi Prize 2024

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Collections Evening and Bayly Prize

Collections Evening 2025 The Society held its annual Collections Evening last Friday (10 April). This year, we were…

The Surya P. Subedi Prize – Winners Announced and Calling for Nominations

The Royal Asiatic Society is delighted to announce the winners of the Surya P. Subedi Prize 2024. The…

Latest Event Recordings now Available

We have now made available on YouTube, recordings of four of our lectures and book talks held in…

Catalogue Updates and Society Events

This week some retrospective cataloguing work has been done to the Reginald Campbell Thompson collection – some of…

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