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Digitization of Documents from the Sufi Shrines at Dhar in India
The Society is delighted to announce the completion of its project to digitize documents related to the Sufi Shrines in Dhar, Madhya Pradesh, India. Funded by the Endangered Archive Programme at…
28 April 2023Now available on YouTube: Launch of Derek Davis translation of Pushkin’s ‘A Journey to Arzrum during the Campaign of 1829’
“There was a Poet whose untimely tomb…” Shelley Alastor Much has happened since the launch of my translation of Pushkin’s Arzrum [Erzurum] on 25 October. At RAS,…
3 March 2023Cultural Worlds at the Jaipur Court
To celebrate the publication of Masterpieces at the Jaipur Court, edited by Mrinalini Venkateswaran and Giles Tillotson, the Society hosted a study day on the topic of Cultural Worlds at the Jaipur…
24 February 2023New Digitization, and a Festschrift for Dr Barbara Brend
We are delighted to announce that two manuscripts have been added to the Society’s online collections and can now be read in full on our Digital Library. These are a Bustan of…
10 February 2023A 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 2022Captain 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 2022Derek Davis on A S Pushkin’s A Journey to Arzrum during the Campaign of 1829 – Part 2
On Tuesday 25 October RAS launches Derek Davis’ English edition of A S Pushkin’s A Journey to Arzrum during the Campaign of 1829. Mr Davis continues his account of Society contacts with…
21 October 2022Derek Davis on A S Pushkin’s A Journey to Arzrum during the Campaign of 1829 – Part 2
On Tuesday 25 October RAS launches Derek Davis’ English edition of A S Pushkin’s A Journey to Arzrum during the Campaign of 1829. Mr Davis continues his account of Society contacts with…
10 October 2022Derek Davis: Pushkin’s Journey to Arzrum
This month the JRAS published a special supplement consisting of Derek Davis’ translation and commentary on Pushkin’s A Journey to Arzrum during the 1829 Campaign. In today’s blog Mr Davis writes about…
2 September 2022Robert Skelton OBE (1929-2022) / A Summer Sojourn in Italy: Making a Chinese Qur’an
ROBERT SKELTON OBE (1929-2022) We were very sorry to learn that Robert Skelton, the distinguished art historian and former Keeper of the Indian Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum, died on…
26 August 2022