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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Derek 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 2022 -
RAS Lecture Series 2022 – 2023
We are delighted to announce the start of the 2022 – 23 lecture series at the Royal Asiatic Society. Lectures will continue to be held as ‘hybrid events’ meaning that they will…
16 September 2022 -
Derek 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 2022 -
Robert 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 -
Reginald Campbell Thompson and the Nineveh Project
This Sunday marks the birth of Assyriologist and RAS member Reginald Campbell Thompson (21st August 1876). Campbell Thompson donated two canisters of film to the RAS. The footage dates from the…
19 August 2022