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Placing Udaipur: the James Tod Collection at the RAS
The Society’s library recently received a kind donation from the Maharana of Mewar Charitable Foundation (MMCF) in Udaipur (Rajasthan, India) of its beautiful exhibition catalogue Picturing Place: Painted and Printed Maps at…![]()
Henry Faulds and his Japanese Buddhist Albums
We have had a few sweltering days in the Reading Room this week, but thankfully the weather has cooled off significantly, so it is a great relief. While the Society’s lecture programme…
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The James J. Busuttil Medal and Prize for Human Rights – Winners Announced
The Royal Asiatic Society is pleased to award the 2025 James J. Busuttil Prize and Medal for Human Rights jointly to Dr Lydia Walker for States-in-Waiting: A Counternarrative of Global Decolonization (Cambridge University Press, 2024) and…
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Charles H. Norchi Prize Ceremony
The Society held a ceremony to award its inaugural Charles H. Norchi Prize yesterday evening. It was a joyful occasion filled with engaging discussions, celebrations and drinks, and the event was well-attended…
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George Chinnery’s paintings at the RAS
This week a copy of the international edition of Revista de Cultura has arrived the Library, and will be added to the Society’s collection of academic journals. This issue of the journal…
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The RAS Membership Archive
I am pleased to say that the catalogue for the Society’s Membership archive has now been published here. This collection forms part of the Society’s institutional archives, and contains mainly 20th-century material…
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Anniversary General Meeting and Lecture 2025
The Society had its Anniversary General Meeting yesterday evening, 15 May. Open to all current Fellows of the Society, the meeting is convened annually to present a report and accounts of the…
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Object Cataloguing and New Library Donation
Object Cataloguing If you stopped by our Reading Room in the last couple of weeks, you might have seen a few curious objects dotting around the room. We have recently begun to…
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New additions to the Digital Library
We are pleased to announce that the Society recently added eighteen manuscripts to its Digital Library. They include eleven manuscripts from the Malay collections, and a further seven from the Javanese collections.…
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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 pleased to host three presentations dedicated to different parts of the Society’s important manuscript…
