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  • Collected Works of Sir William Jones donated to the Society

    Yesterday, Thursday 12th January marked the start of events to celebrate the Society’s bicentenary. As part of the celebrations Professor Michael Loewe has donated a set of the first edition of the Collected…

    13 January 2023
    About the Society, Acquisitions, Recent, Royal Asiatic Society
  • Intertextual and Material Culture: Researching the RAS Collections

    This week’s blog post is by Ruth Westoby. Handwritten on paper in Sanskrit, using devanāgarī script, is a manuscript of the Śārṅgadharapaddhati which forms part of the Royal Asiatic Society’s Tod collection.…

    16 December 2022
    India, RAS Collections, Recent
  • William Jones

    William Jones, one of the greatest linguistic prodigies of the eighteenth-century, thoroughly fluent in English, Welsh, Greek, Latin, Persian, Arabic, Hebrew, and Sanskrit, was through the influence of his patron, the Earl…

    12 December 2022
    About the Society, RAS Collections, RAS Lecture Series, Recent
  • Events and Awards

    Through November and into the beginning of December the Society has been busy with lectures, book launches and the award of the Richard Burton Medal and the RAS Medal for 2019 (delayed…

    9 December 2022
    About the Society, Bayly Prize, Book Launches, RAS Awards and Medals, RAS Lecture Series, Recent, Richard Burton Memorial Medal
  • A Tribute For The Legacy Of James Tod

    We are pleased to introduce this tribute from Dr Shuchi Gupta (CCS University, Meerut), who has generously sponsored the digitization of our manuscript RAS Tod 126, comprising two texts on Indian history…

    2 December 2022
    India, RAS Collections, Recent, Uncategorised
  • The Surya P. Subedi Prize

    The Royal Asiatic Society is delighted to announce the launch of the Surya P. Subedi Prize for the publication of a book or article on Nepal in English in any one calendar…

    28 November 2022
    Recent, Royal Asiatic Society, Uncategorised
  • A Qurʾan manuscript with full Malay translation

    We are pleased to introduce this week’s blog by Dr Annabel Teh Gallop, a member of RAS Council.  The Royal Asiatic Society holds a Qurʾan manuscript (Arabic 4), which is of exceptional…

    25 November 2022
    Book Launches, Collections, RAS Collections, Recent, Uncategorised
  • Chinese Dreams in Romantic England: The Life and Times of Thomas Manning – Out Now!

    This week’s blog post is by RAS Librarian Edward Weech. Many long-time readers of the Society’s blog will remember that, in 2015, the RAS acquired the archive of Thomas Manning (1772-1840). At…

    18 November 2022
    China, Collections, Recent, Uncategorised
  • Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: A short biographical sketch by Archie Phillpotts

    Next Tuesday we will host the first of three Burton Medal award lectures. To coincide with this occasion we are delighted to publish the following essay by Archie Phillpotts comprising a biographical…

    4 November 2022
    Recent, Richard Burton
  • Happy birthday Michael Loewe!

    Professor Michael Loewe was born a hundred years ago, on 2 November 1922. He has been a Fellow of the Society since 1959, and at various times during the past sixty-three years…

    2 November 2022
    Recent, Uncategorised
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