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Visits, Conferences, and Events at the Royal Asiatic Society
As part of the global community of scholars and enthusiasts involved in Asian studies, the Society is always looking for opportunities to develop international partnerships and bring our collections to the attention…
5 July 2024Revisiting ‘Ancestral Worship’
This week, our blog features a post by Raymond Mann, exploring the background to one of the photos in our China Glass Slide collection. This photo was previously labelled ‘Ancestral Worship’, but…
31 May 2024Sir Richard Burton’s Arabian Nights – by Dr. Amy Matthewson
Sir Richard Burton’s Arabian Night What makes a good translation of a literary work? Is it faithfulness to the work, despite awkwardness or potential risk of making the reader feel lost in…
3 November 2023Digitization 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 2023New Digitization and New Discoveries in the Photograph Collection
The Society’s collection is diverse not only in the places and topics it covers, but also in the formats and media it contains. Once upon a time, the Society even held a…
17 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 2022The 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 2022A 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
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