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Tales from the Malay World
This week, RAS Director, Alison Ohta, provides the blog: On the 18th August 2017, an exhibition of Malay manuscripts and printed books entitled ‘Tales from the Malay World’ opened at the National…
7 September 2017A Positive Impression: Conservation Students’ Work With RAS Collections
Last year, we were delighted to work with students from the Camberwell College of Arts MA in Conservation, who conserved items from our collections as part of their final projects. The conservators,…
11 August 2017Miscellaneous Box M
At the recent South Asian Archives and Library Group (SAALG) Annual Conference, I was asked to give a talk on some aspect of our Collections. The general theme of the conference was…
3 August 2017Working with the Stein Collection and end of placement
We are grateful to Carly Bishop, MA University of Sussex placement student, for her time spent with our photograph collections, and for writing the blog this week: As I come to the…
20 July 2017Snakes and Ladders
Within the RAS Collections we have two versions of a Snakes and Ladders game. This game, now popular in many countries, is of Indian origin dating back to the 13th century. Our more…
13 July 2017Digitized Versions of three RAS Manuscripts available thanks to Cambridge Digital Library
On Monday 3 July 2017 we travelled to Cambridge for the launch of digitized versions of three important manuscripts belonging to the Royal Asiatic Society. These are held on long-term loan at Cambridge…
4 July 2017RAS receives ‘Conversation piece’, a gift from Professor Francis Robinson
On 16 June, the Society was pleased to host a celebration to mark the acquisition of a new painting, a gift to the Society from Professor Francis Robinson. The painting, Conversation piece…
30 June 2017Placement at The Royal Asiatic Society
This week’s blog post is written by Carly Bishop, our current placement student: I am currently studying for an MA in Art History and Museum Curating with Photography at the University of…
8 June 2017Daniel John Gogerly (1792-1862) – Early Pali Scholar
We are very grateful for the many volunteers who give of their time to help with our Collections. Recently Ginte Serenaite spent several months with us working on the Papers of Daniel…
30 May 2017Collections Open Evening
Do you know how to repair an Indian painting? Or mend a Persian manuscript? Do you know the story of Nana Fadnavis and the Maratha Peshwa, Madhu Rao Narayan, or the how…
25 May 2017