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News from the Second Tod Tour
The 2nd Tod Tour is well underway following in the footsteps of James Tod’s journey in Gujarat as described in his book Travels in Western India. You may remember Liz Driver’s lecture…
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Making a Book: The Society’s Anniversary Edition of Tod’s Annals and Antiquities of Rajast’han.
This week’s blog post is provided by Dr Gordon Johnson, Vice-President of the Society: James Tod’s Annals and Antiquities of Rajast’han or the Central and Western Rajpoot States was published in 2…
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Drawing to the end of our bicentenary year
This will be the last blog post of 2023, the year of the bicentenary of the Society, and though bicentennial activities are continuing into 2024, with further celebratory lectures and a forthcoming…
James Tod’s ‘Annals and Antiquities of Rajast’han’ 2023 subscription
To commemorate its bicentenary, the Royal Asiatic Society has commissioned a limited edition re-issue of Lt.-Col. James Tod’s Annals and Antiquities of Rajast’han, with a new Companion Volume by Norbert Peabody (to…
James Tod and the ‘Annals and Antiquities of Rajast’han’
This Thursday (18th November) marked the anniversary of the death of the Oriental Scholar, Lieutenant-Colonel James Tod (20 March 1782 - 18 November 1835). Painting of Lt. Col James Tod from,…Celebrating our Achievements
For this week’s blog post, we wanted to celebrate some of the work that has been carried out at the society over the last year, amidst such challenging circumstances. One of these…
Burton, Tod and Coping with Covid
As most of you will know, or have guessed, the Royal Asiatic Society is now closed for the foreseeable future with the Reading Room shut to researchers and all lectures and events…
Henry Colebrooke Writes Again…
This week, we are indebted again to “Henry Colebrooke” for our blog post: According to the inscription on the verso of the above painting, it shows my friend James Tod making his…
A Blog from Henry Colebrooke
This week, we have a guest blogger. Written in the voice of Henry Colebrooke, the Royal Asiatic Society’s founder in 1823, we learn of a new project, one of the ways in…
More Birthdays and a Death
This week sees the birthdays of three people associated with the RAS and the death of another… Richard Burton was born on 19th March 1821 in Torquay, Devon and his wife Isabel…
