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  • The self-taught cartographer and his Hindi wall map of India

      In his final blog for the year, Philip Jagessar writes about a Hindi wall map of India which was sent to the Society by a Calcutta-based mapmaker. The Royal Asiatic Society’s…
    3 December 2021
    Acquisitions, Book Launches, Events, India, lectures, Maps, Mysore
  • Studying the Sanskrit Language

      Friedrich Max Müller: This Thursday (28th October) marked the anniversary of the death of the philologist and Orientalist, Friedrich Max Müller (6th December 1823-28th October 1900).   Friedrich Max Müller by…
    29 October 2021
    2021-2022 lecture series, anniversary, awards, book launch, Events, India, Journal of Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund, RAS Collections, religion, Sanskrit
  • 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…

    17 September 2020
    Book Launches, India, Indian Art, Islamic Art, Oriental Translation Fund, RAS Collections
  • More RAS Manuscripts Now Online

    While the Society’s building has been closed for the last few months, we have been looking for ways to continue making collections and other interesting content available to our members and wider…

    18 June 2020
    China, Collections, India, RAS Collections
  • William Carey and the Serampore Trio

    Today, 9th June, marks the anniversary of the death of William Carey. Born in 1761, he died on this day in 1834. Having spent most of my childhood in Northamptonshire, Carey was…

    9 June 2020
    India, RAS Collections
  • Dr. Norbert Peabody receives the Colonel James Tod Award

    On 1st March 2020, Dr Norbert Peabody was bestowed with the Colonel James Tod Award by the Udaipur-based Maharana of Mewar Charitable Foundation (MMCF).  This award was instituted in 1996-97 as part…

    13 March 2020
    India, RAS Collections, RAS Lecture Series
  • Wannell, Bayly and Buchanan-Hamilton

    BRUCE WANNELL, EXPERT ON ISLAMIC MYSTICISM It is with great sadness that we report the death of Bruce Wannell in York from pancreatic cancer. Bruce Wannell, a long-standing member of the Society,…

    31 January 2020
    India, RAS Awards and Medals, RAS Collections
  • National Girl Child Day

    In India today (24 January) it is National Girl Child Day, an initiative set up in 2008 by the Ministry of Women and Child Development to highlight the inequalities often faced by…

    24 January 2020
    India, RAS Collections, RAS Lecture Series
  • General John Briggs (1785-1875)

    John Briggs was an officer in the East India Company army. He entered the Madras army in 1801 and accompanied Sir John Malcolm on his mission to Persia in 1810. Briggs took…

    26 April 2019
    Digital Library, India, RAS Collections, RAS Lecture Series, RAS Library
  • Benjamin Guy Babington (1794-1866)

    Monday 8th April marked the anniversary of the death of Benjamin Guy Babington, who died on that day in 1866. Babington was born on 5 March 1794 in Guy’s Hospital, London, where…

    11 April 2019
    Burma, India, Japan, RAS Collections, RAS Lecture Series
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