The Royal Asiatic Society Books

The policy of the Society’s Editorial Board is to make available in appropriate formats the results of original research in the humanities and social sciences having to do with Asia, defined in the broadest geographical and cultural sense and up to the present day. The Society publishes several books each year as part of the Monograph Series, whose coverage spans all of Asia.

There is also the Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt Fund Series, established in 2002 by Princess Fazilé Ibrahim to encourage the growth and development of Ottoman studies internationally. The Series publishes documents and manuscripts of historical importance from the classical period up to 1839, with transliteration, full or part translation and scholarly commentaries. This series is published in association with the Edinburgh University Press and more details can be found on their website here.

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Professor Francis Robinson, Royal Holloway, University of London (Chair)
Professor Tim Barrett, SOAS, University of London
Dr Barbara Brend, Royal Asiatic Society
Dr Evrim Binbas, University of Bonn
Professor Anna Contadini, SOAS, University of London
Professor R. Michael Feener, Kyoto University
Dr Gordon Johnson, University of Cambridge
Dr Alison Ohta, Director, Royal Asiatic Society
Dr Norbert Peabody, University of Cambridge

Princess Fazilé Ibrahim (Founder)
Dr Evrim Binbaş, University of Bonn
Professor Francis Robinson, Royal Holloway, University of London
Professor Michael Ursinus, President of the CIEPO
Professor Edhem Eldem, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul
Dr. Colin Heywood, Nottingham University
Assoc. Professor Erdem Çipa, University of Michigan
Assoc. Professor Emine Fetvaci, Boston University
Asst. Professor Mayte Green-Mercado, Rutgers University Newark
Marinos Sariyannis, Research Director of Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Foundation for Research and Technology, Hellas
Dr Kate Fleet, University of Cambridge

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The Picture Gallery (Nigāristān): A Persian Moral Miscellany

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The RAS welcomes proposals for publications. Please click the button on the right for advice on how to submit a proposal. If you have any further queries, please contact Alison Ohta, Director of the Royal Asiatic Society, via email: ao@royalasiaticsociety.org.

Maharana Bhim Singh at a Hunting Picnic, 1824 or 1825

Annals and Antiquities of Rajast’han (2023 re-issue)

To commemorate its bicentenary, the Society commissioned a limited edition re-issue of Lieutenant-Colonel James Tod’s Annals and Antiquities of Rajast’han, with a new Companion Volume by Dr Norbert Peabody, co-published by the Society and Yale University Press.

The two volumes of Tod’s publication, first published in 1829–32, remain to this day the first port of call for anyone interested in the history and culture of Rajasthan and the early colonial encounter in India. This re-issue of the original text including over 80 original copperplate engravings, woodblock prints, and lithographs returns the text to its original state, while the accompanying companion volume critically reframes this monumental, but often misunderstood, work. Re-articulating the variety of voices that simultaneously inhabit Tod’s Annals, the revised volume argues for a more conjunctural, contingent, and open-ended reading of colonial history.

The re-issue is available to purchase from Yale University Press here.

Past Publications