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Subedi Prize Announcement, Lectures & Books for Sale
2025 Subedi Prize Winner Announcement The Society is pleased to announce that the judges of the 2025 Subedi Prize for the Study of Nepal have reached their decision. The judges decided, unanimously,…
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Winner of 2025 James J. Busuttil Prize Announced
The Royal Asiatic Society is delighted to award the 2025 James J. Busuttil Prize and Medal for Human Rights to Professor Christian O. Christiansen for his book In Defense of Economic &…
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Bayly Prize, New Book, Exhibition and Reader Visit
Nominations for the 2026 Bayly Prize We begin this week’s post with a reminder that nominations for the 2026 Bayly Prize close in two weeks. The prize is awarded for a distinguished…
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Award Nominations, Call for Papers and New Issue of JRAS
We begin this week’s post with a reminder that three of the Society’s awards are currently open for nominations. These awards are given periodically by the Society to recognise outstanding contributions to…
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2025 Bayly Prize Winners & More Awards Open for Nominations
The Society is glad to announce that the judges for the Bayly Prize have reached their decision about the winners for the 2025 Bayly Prize. Instigated in 2018, the Bayly Prize is…
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Events, Research Visit and Special Issue of JRAS
It’s been a lively and rewarding week at the Society, with two events and an international visit bringing scholars and friends together. Below is a recap on what we’ve been through this…
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Staff Intro, Noh Theatre Chants and Prize Reminder
This week, we open our blog with a piece written by Evelyn Dodds, who joined the Society last week as our new Outreach and Communications Officer. Some of you may already recognise…
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2026 Bayly Prize, New Starter, Book Launch and NACIRA Conference
For this week’s blog post we’re giving you a roundup of updates on the activities taking place at the Society and across our wider community: 2026 Bayly Prize While we’re still…
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In Memory of Christopher C. F. Naylor
Kit Naylor (1929–2026) The Society was deeply saddened to learn of the death of Christopher Charles Francis Naylor, known to all as Kit. He was a long-standing and devoted member of the…
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Happy New Year & Upcoming Bayly Prize Ceremony
This is our first blogpost in 2026 so we’d like to wish our readers a very Happy New Year! We hope everyone is having a great start to the new year. Here…
