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Bayly Prize Update
The Society is delighted to announce that the adjudicators for the Bayly Prize have reached their decision about the winners for the 2021 competition. The judges report a gratifyingly strong field of submission…
Thomas William Rhys Davids and the Pāli Language
This Wednesday (12th May) marked the 178th anniversary of the birth of Thomas William Rhys Davids (1843-1922) who was a scholar of the Pāli language and founder of the Pāli Text Society.…
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The significance of The Oriental Translation Fund and the role of Forster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot
This week’s blog post focusses on the cataloguing of The Oriental Translation Fund papers. Very little has been published around the work of the fund which has been significant in funding published…
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…
The first English translator of Tohfut-ul-mujahideen
Working with the RAS Collections is always an interesting experience – no two days at work are ever quite the same. Recently I have been working on some big collections – doing…
Royal Asiatic Society Medals – the Oriental Translation Fund Medals
Throughout its history the Royal Asiatic Society have given medals and awards to scholars of Asiatic research. I have begun to organise the records for each of these, preparing them for cataloguing.…
