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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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