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Recent RAS news
Congratulations to Bayly Prize winner Dr Lexi Stadlen whose first book ‘Nine Paths: A Year in the Life of an Indian Village’ was published by Penguin Random House yesterday. The book is…
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Publications and Collections (and the two combined!)
We start this week with news of a forthcoming special supplement to the Journal: Two hundred years ago the Society took a broad interest in all unfolding and less known parts of…
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Special Issue on Sanskrit Literature
The January 2022 JRAS (vol 32:1) contains (among other essays) five related articles about Sanskrit literature during the 500 years or so when Persian was the dominant language of culture in north…
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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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Cataloguing the Collections
Cataloguing Update: Progress is being made on the cataloguing of collections material in the institutional archive with descriptions now ready to be uploaded onto Archives Hub. I have discovered several interesting finds… -
The Founding of the RAS
Anniversary of the Inauguration of the RAS: This Monday (15th March), marked the 198th anniversary of the inauguration of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. The Society was founded…
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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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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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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…
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Online Events and Archival Progress…
This afternoon, Tuesday May 26th, the Royal Asiatic Society in conjunction with the British Council, Georgia, hosted a zoom lecture by Zaza Purtseladze on the “Educational and Cultural landscape in Georgia –…
