Author / Nancy Charley
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Returning to the Royal Asiatic Society
As you will have read in last week’s blog post, I returned to the Royal Asiatic Society as the Archivist at the beginning of the year. In a series of coincidences I…
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Happy New Year
We would like to wish everyone a very Happy New Year and hope that Covid did not intervene to prevent your celebrations. The Society re-opened on the 4th January and we are delighted…
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Farewell
Today (1st October) is my last day at the Society. By the time I walk out of the door this evening, I will have been at the Society exactly 6 years. I…
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Celebrating World Maritime Day
Today (24th September) is designated by the United Nations as World Maritime Day. This is an annual event occurring on the last Thursday in September which celebrates the professionalism and courage of…
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Aap Beeti
This week I am grateful to Mrinalini Venkateswaran for the majority of the content of the blog post. Mrinalini is a Fellow of the Society and Museum Consultant at the Maharaja Sawai…
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Much achieved, much still to be done
There are very few blog posts now, that I will get chance to write before I leave the Society. Therefore, I thought I would take the opportunity to complete writing about the…
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The Papers of Angus C. Graham
In 2018, the Society acquired the Papers and Library of Angus C. Graham thanks to the generous donation by his family. It has been one of my aims to complete the cataloguing…
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Remembering Charles Allen
It is with great sadness that we write of the death of Charles Allen who died from cancer on the 16 August 2020. Charles, born in India in 1940 (one of the…
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Historicizing Sayyid-ness
The JRAS editorial team is very pleased to announce that Volume 30’s third issue is a Special Issue, entitled ‘Historicizing Sayyid-ness: Social Status and Muslim Identity in South Asia’, which is guest-edited…
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Succession Planning
I have spent a considerable number of my working hours this week reading through application forms for my potential successor as archivist at the Royal Asiatic Society. It is almost time for…
