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On 5th July, the Royal Asiatic Society, in collaboration with Southampton University, will host the conference New Worlds of the East India Company. The conference will draw together many scholars working in…
More RAS Manuscripts Now Online
We are delighted to announce that two more manuscripts from the Society’s collection have been digitized, and are now available to view in their entirety on the RAS Digital Library. The first…
Reading Manuscript Paintings in the Kulliyat of Nava’i, and RAS AGM 2022
Dr Funda San (Yildiz Technical University) is currently exploring the Society’s collection of Turkish manuscripts, as part of a research project supported by TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Institution of Turkey).…
Happy New Year
We would like to wish everyone a very Happy New Year and hope that Covid did not intervene to prevent your celebrations. The Society re-opened on the 4th January and we are delighted…
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,…Halloween Update
There’s a chill in the air as we enter the second half of Autumn, but the Society’s events programme is running at full steam with several events planned between October and November.…Charles Ambrose Storey and the Razmnama Manuscript
This Saturday (21st August) marks the 133rd anniversary of the birth of the British Orientalist and former Fellow of the Society, Charles Ambrose Storey (1888-1968). Storey studied Classics and Oriental languages at…
Epic Iran Exhibition
In this week’s blog, RAS Director Dr Alison Ohta writes about the Epic Iran exhibition. Organised with the Iran Heritage Foundation in association with the Sarikhani Collection, this is currently running at…
Textiles and Manuscripts in the Islamic Tradition
Director Presents on Textiles and Manuscripts in the Islamic Tradition: The Society’s Director, Alison Ohta took part in a virtual workshop on the 2nd and 3rd of June. The workshop was titled…
Welcoming students back to the Society
SOAS Visit to the RAS: On the 20th May, we welcomed the students from the MA in Art and Archaeology class at SOAS with Professor Anna Contadini. This was the first group…
