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SUMMARY:Uday S. Kulkarni Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY  \nVIRTUAL BOOK LAUNCH \nOf  Uday S. Kulkarni’s \nThe Extraordinary Epoch of Nanasaheb Peshwa \n1st December 2020 at 2pm (UK time) / 7.30pm (Indian time) \nIf you would like to attend\, please contact Matty Bradley by e-mail:  mb@royalasiaticsociety.org \nand the Zoom link and password will be provided. Please note the number of attendees is limited so early registration is advised. Please register by the 30th November \nThe mid-eighteenth century began with the Marathas as the paramount power in India\, and in the next two decades\, they rose in power and prestige. In the Carnatic\, Bengal\, Rajputana\, Malwa\, Bundelkhand they were supreme\, and in Delhi\, the Marathas ruled while the Mughal king reigned. In this period when Nanasaheb Peshwa was at the helm\, the Maratha power reached its zenith. But that was not the entire story. The events of the mid-eighteenth century are pivotal\, and determined the course of the next five decades. The rise of the Europeans in the south and the east added a new dimension\, so that this epoch eventually emerged as the crossroad of Indian history. This book narrates that engrossing story. The book is published in hardcover\, with over 40 colour pictures on art plates and 27 maps and illustrations. The 500-page book is copiously annotated with over a thousand references and has a bibliography and a glossary along with an introduction to principal characters and important genealogies. \nUday S. Kulkarni has written six historical nonfiction books on 18th Century India. An alumnus of the Armed Forces Medical College in Pune and a surgeon by profession\, Kulkarni served in the Indian Navy retiring in the rank of Surgeon Commander.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/uday-s-kulkarni-book-launch/
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210119T183000
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SUMMARY:Ian Talbot’s The History of British Diplomacy in Pakistan Book Launch
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/ian-talbots-the-history-of-british-diplomacy-in-pakistan-book-launch/
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210121T183000
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Lawrence Lecture: Acquiring Books in Eighteenth-Century Bengal: William Jones' Library
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/jonathan-lawrence-lecture-acquiring-books-in-eighteenth-century-bengal-william-jones-library/
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210129T183000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch of Arndt-Walter Emmerich’s Islamic Movements in India
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/book-launch-of-arndt-walter-emmerichs-islamic-movements-in-india/
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210517T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210517T203000
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SUMMARY:Graham Hutchings China 1949
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/graham-hutchings-china-1949/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210520T183000
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SUMMARY:Amanda Phillips Book Launch
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/amanda-phillips-book-launch/
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210617T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210617T203000
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SUMMARY:Dr. Marcus Milwright Book Launch (Joint RAS and IAC)
DESCRIPTION:The Queen of Sheba’s Gift: A History of the True Balsam of Matarea
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/dr-marcus-milwright-book-launch-joint-ras-and-iac/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Seth M.N. Priestman Book Launch
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/seth-m-n-priestman-book-launch/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210810T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210810T203000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: The Making of Islamic Art: Studies in Honour of Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom
DESCRIPTION:A conversation with Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom\, chaired by\nProfessor Robert Hillenbrand and Professor Carole Hillenbrand \n  \nIn their own words\, Jonathan Bloom and Sheila Blair espouse ‘things and thinginess rather than theories and isations’. Its many insights\, firmly anchored in artistic practice\, are supported by ample technical know-how. The range is wide – mosques becoming temples; how religious buildings reflect politics; Yemeni frescoes and inscriptions; domestic Syrian 18th-century ornament; Egyptian bookbinding techniques; recycling and repair in Damascene crafts; conservation versus restoration; narrative on ceramics; metalwork with architectural motifs; lost buildings reconstructed; how objects speak; Muslim burials in China; the role of migrating potters; Mughal painting; stone carpet weights; the use of metals in Islamic manuscripts\, calligraphy and modern artists’ books. This book’s practical\, down-to-earth dimension\, expressed in plain\, simple English\, runs counter to the current fashion for theoretical explanations and their accompanying jargon when exploring the world of Islamic art. This bottom–up approach differs radically and refreshingly from that of much top-down contemporary scholarship. It privileges the maker rather than the patron. \nAttendees will also receive a 35% discount code upon registration.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/book-launch-the-making-of-islamic-art-studies-in-honour-of-sheila-blair-and-jonathan-bloom/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Reflections on Mughal Art & Culture
DESCRIPTION:  \nReflections on Mughal Art and Culture\, recently published\, explores the rich aesthetic and cultural legacy of the Mughal Empire with new\, insightful material researched by 13 leading scholars in the field. The articles in the book discuss varied subjects under the Mughal umbrella\, challenge long-held ideas and draw comparisons between the artistic expressions and material culture of the powerful Islamicate triumvirate of the early modern period. During the first half of this presentation\, Roda Ahluwalia\, editor of the book\, will explore the diversity in chapters as well as common threads that run through them\, unifying the book in aesthetic and cultural identity.  \n  \nIn the second half of this presentation Kavita Singh\, Professor\, School of Arts and Aesthetics\, JNU\, Delhi\, will discuss her contribution to the volume in which she  discusses the text-image relationship of select examples from the Akbarnama\, Jahangirnama and Padshahnama to show significant divergences between the words and images that often faced each other across the page. She will focus on one of the examples discussed in her essay\, through which she will explore reasons for the ‘gaps’ between word and image and weave her way to a keen and perceptive conclusion.”
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/reflections-on-mughal-art-culture/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,RAS Lecture Series 2021-22
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211021T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211021T203000
DTSTAMP:20260515T024731
CREATED:20210920T152126Z
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SUMMARY:Professor Marc Baer: The Ottomans book launch
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/professor-marc-baer-the-ottomans-book-launch/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211028T183000
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SUMMARY:Professor Dionisius Agius: The Life of the Red Sea Dhow: A Cultural History of Seaborne Exploration in the Islamic World
DESCRIPTION:Few images are as evocative as the silhouette of the Arab dhow as\, under full sail\, it tacks to windward on glittering waters of Red Sea before moving across the face of the rising or setting sun. In this authoritative new book\, Dionisius A. Agius\, one of the foremost scholars of Islamic material culture\, offers a lucid and wide-ranging history of the iconic dhow from medieval to modern times. Traversing the Arabian and African coasts\, he shows that the dhow was central not just to commerce but to the vital transmission and exchange of ideas. Discussing trade and salt routes\, shoals and wind patterns\, spice harvest seasons and the deep and resonant connection between language\, memory and oral tradition\, this is the first book to place the dhow in its full and remarkable cultural contexts. \nDionisius A. Agius is Al Qasimi Professor of Arabic Studies and Islamic Material Culture at the University of Exeter\, UK. He is the author of numerous books including Seafaring in the Arabian Gulf and Oman (2005)\, winner of The Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah Foundation and British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize\, and Class Ships of Islam (2008). He is a Fellow of the British Academy\, the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Geographical Society.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/professor-dionisius-agius-the-life-of-the-red-sea-dhow-a-cultural-history-of-seaborne-exploration-in-the-islamic-world/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,RAS Lecture Series 2021-22
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SUMMARY:Professor Alka Patel Booklaunch: Iran to India: The Shansabānīs of Afghanistan\, c. 1145-1190 CE
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/professor-alka-patel-booklaunch-iran-to-india-the-shansabanis-of-afghanistan-c-1145-1190-ce/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Dr. Bora Keskiner: Yāqūt al-Musta'simī and the Practise of Naql in Islamic Calligraphy
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/dr-bora-keskiner-yaqut-al-mustasimi-and-the-practise-of-naql-in-islamic-calligraphy/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,RAS Lecture Series 2021-22
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211213T183000
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SUMMARY:Leena Dhingra Book Launch:  Exhumation - The Life and Death of Madan Lal Dhingra
DESCRIPTION:Join us at 6.30pm on Monday 13th December for the book launch of Leena Dhingra’s Exhumation: The Life and Death of Madan Lal Dhingra. \n \n\n\n\n\nOn 17th August 1909\, Madan Lal Dhingra was executed in Pentonville Prison for the assassination of Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie\, a high-ranking official from the British India office. Viewed as a murderer in the UK\, in India Madan Lal is seen as a great patriot\, a freedom fighter\, and a martyr. In 1976\, his remains were exhumed\, and his body returned to India. In Exhumation\, Madan Lal’s great niece\, the actor and writer Leena Dhingra\, unravels and reveals his remarkable story. \nPart history\, part memoir\, this is also the story of Leena’s journey to come to terms with this painful episode from her family’s past. Exhumation: The Life and Death of Madan Lal Dhingra is a compelling story of family secrets that throws light on the dark legacy of colonialism. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLeena Dhingra was born in India\, and came to Europe after the 1947 Partition of India. Her first novel Amritvela was published in 1988. An author and actor\, her TV credits include The Bill\, Casualty\, Prime Suspect and Dr Who. She has also starred in EastEnders and Coronation Street\, and most recently appeared in the Channel 4 drama series Ackley Bridge. A Londoner for 40 years\, Leena Dhingra now lives near Manchester.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/leena-dhingra-book-launch-exhumation-the-life-and-death-of-madan-lal-dhingra/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Book Launch - 'Cartooning China: Punch\, Power\, and Politics in the Victorian Era' By Dr Amy Matthewson
DESCRIPTION:Thursday 19th May at 6.30pm\n  \nCartooning China” Punch\, Power\, and Politics in the Victorian Era explores the series of cartoons of China and the Chinese that were published in the popular British satirical magazine Punch over a sixty-year period from 1841 to 1901.  This talk will give an overview of the book by taking a look at the editors\, writers\, and artists at Punch as well as the political climate in which the cartoons arose. \n  \n  \n \n  \nDr. Amy Matthewson completed her Doctorate in History at the School of Oriental and African Studies\, University of London.  Her research interests include visual and material cultures and race relations\, in particular Sino-British relations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.  She is currently Lecturer in History at the University of Iceland. \n  \n  \nIf you would like to attend\, whether in person or over Zoom\, please register with Matty Bradley by e-mail:  mb@royalasiaticsociety.org
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/book-launch-cartooning-china-punch-power-and-politics-in-the-victorian-era-by-dr-amy-matthewson/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Dr Hannah K. Bartos Book Launch: Modern Transnational Yoga: The Transmission of Posture Practice
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at 6.30pm on Friday July 8th for the book launch of Modern Transnational Yoga: The Transmission of Posture Practice by Dr Hannah Bartos. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen you register\, please specify whether you plan to attend at the Society ‘in person’ or ‘online only’. \nYou can register by emailing Matty Bradley at mb@royalasiaticsociety.org \nFree and open to all at Royal Asiatic Society\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London NW1 2HD.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/dr-hannah-k-bartos-book-launch-modern-transnational-yoga-the-transmission-of-posture-practice/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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CREATED:20220623T145942Z
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SUMMARY:Professor Robert Arnott Book Launch: Crossing Continents
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/professor-robert-arnott-book-launch-crossing-continents/
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230110T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230110T203000
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CREATED:20221212T135957Z
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SUMMARY:Book Launch - Dr Jennifer Griggs (Fondazione per le scienze religiose): Medieval Mysticism in Syriac
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/book-launch-dr-jennifer-griggs-fondazione-per-le-scienze-religiose-medieval-mysticism-in-syriac/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230717T183000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch Dr Joshua Ehrlich: The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to all at 14 Stephenson Way\, NW1 2HD \nTo join online email Matty: mb@royalasiaticsociety.org \n  \nThe East India Company is remembered as the world’s most powerful\, not to say notorious\, corporation. But for many of its advocates from the 1770s to the 1850s it was also the world’s most enlightened one. Joshua Ehrlich reveals that a commitment to knowledge was integral to the Company’s ideology. He shows how the Company cited this commitment in defense of its increasingly fraught union of commercial and political power. He moves beyond studies of orientalism\, colonial knowledge\, and information with a new approach: the history of ideas of knowledge. He recovers a world of debate among the Company’s officials and interlocutors\, Indian and European\, on the political uses of knowledge. Not only were these historical actors highly articulate on the subject but their ideas continue to resonate in the present. Knowledge was a fixture in the politics of the Company – just as it seems to be becoming a fixture in today’s politics. \n  \n  \n‘This is an important book. Compellingly written\, it offers valuable insights into the connections between politics\, knowledge\, and corporate interests – connections that sit at the core of pressing contemporary debates.’ \n Kapil Raj – École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales \n  \n‘For its fresh approach\, blending the histories of knowledge and political thought; for its persuasive argument\, based on deep research in Persian and European-language sources; and for its lucid and elegant style\, Ehrlich’s wonderful book will be required reading for historians of the East India Company\, South Asia\, and the British Empire.’ \nRosane Rocher – University of Pennsylvania \n  \n‘In a work as ambitious as it is meticulous\, Joshua Ehrlich reveals the British conquest of India to have been the work not only of the ‘merchant’ and the ‘sovereign’ but also of the scholar – as much the product of advancing armies and revenue officials as of the translators\, historians\, surveyors\, libraries\, learned societies\, colleges\, gardens\, and many more that made the case for how and why to rule that expanding empire. This book offers a compelling account of how debates over scholarship and education shaped the East India Company state\, as well as a thought-provoking reflection on the ways in which the power to create and command knowledge has been central to ideologies of global corporate power\,  from the eighteenth century to today’s ‘information economy.’’ \n Philip J. Stern – Duke University
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/book-launch-dr-joshua-ehrlich-the-east-india-company-and-the-politics-of-knowledge/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:(Book launch) Prof Chris Fuller (LSE) - Anthropologist and Imperialist H. H. Risley and British India\, 1873-1911
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/book-launch-prof-christopher-fuller-lse-anthropologist-and-imperialist-h-h-risley-and-british-india-1873-1911/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Robin Masefield - The World Administered by Irishmen: The Life and Times of Robert Hart and Irish Contemporaries in East Asia
DESCRIPTION:Robin Masefield’s latest book\, published by Queen’s University Belfast\, is entitled The World Administered by Irishmen: The Life and Times of Robert Hart and Irish Contemporaries in East Asia. \nWhile\, the initial focus is on the Chinese Maritime Customs Service\, and the Ulsterman Sir Robert Hart who led it for 45 years\, the book brings together a treasure trove of other Irish people in East Asia – men from Ulster in the Customs Service; a nurse from Roscommon; a doctor from Cork; a diplomat from Meath; Hong Kong governors from Dublin; and many more. Using first-hand accounts where possible\, the book vividly brings to life the special contribution that Irish men and women made to developing relations with China\, Japan and Korea in the 19th century. It is illustrated with three hundred images. \nRobin Masefield worked in Hong Kong in the 1980s\, and this is his third book with an Asian focus. He was awarded the CBE in 2003. \nSince retiring in Belfast in 2010\, he has written a number of books\, including three on aspects of local history in North Down. \nHe and his wife\, Rosemary\, moved to Surrey in autumn 2023. He is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. \nThe book can be obtained online at www.blackstaffpress.com\, or email specialcollections@qub.ac.uk.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/robin-masefield-the-world-administered-by-irishmen-the-life-and-times-of-robert-hart-and-irish-contemporaries-in-east-asia/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Look at the Coins! Papers in Honour of Joe Cribb on his 75th Birthday
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LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Professor Ruby Lal - Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan (Book launch)
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the book launch of Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan with author Professor Ruby Lal. \nFree and open to all at the Royal Asiatic Society\, 14 Stephenson Way\, NW1 2HD. \nTo join online please email Matty at mb@royalasiaticsociety.org \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n \n 
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/professor-ruby-lal-vagabond-princess-the-great-adventures-of-gulbadan-book-launch/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Prof Lydia Walker in conversation with Dr Ria Kapoor - States-in-Waiting: A Counternarrative of Global Decolonization
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/prof-lydia-walker-in-conversation-with-dr-ria-kapoor-states-in-waiting-a-counternarrative-of-global-decolonization/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Dr Andrew Hillier - The Alcock Album: Scenes of China Consular Life\, 1843-1853
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/dr-andrew-hillier-the-alcock-album-scenes-of-china-consular-life-1843-1853/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Anabel Loyd: The Dervish Bowl (Book Launch)
DESCRIPTION:The Dervish Bowl\n\n\n\nThe Many Lives of Arminius Vambéry\n\n  \n \n  \n\n\n‘A compelling portrait of one of the 19th century’s most characteristic heroes’\nAsian Review of Books \n‘Arminius Vambéry was one of the shadier characters to travel the fabled Silk Roads through Persia to Central Asia. His mostly forgotten story is vividly told in Anabel Loyd’s lively and entertaining biography.’\nAnthony Sattin\, author of Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World \n‘There have been many hagiographies written about Arminius Vambery – mainly by Arminius himself – so it’s refreshing to read of his life in unvarnished detail. Anabel Loyd captures the different facets and flaws of this complex traveller\, who seemed to fit everywhere and nowhere.’\nChris Aslan\, author of Unravelling the Silk Road: Travels and Textiles in Central Asia \n‘Anabel Loyd’s biography of Arminius Vambéry is a fascinating book and a masterly study. It is both a mine of so far unknown information as well as a thrilling read which will benefit both the scholar and the general reader.’\nChristoph Baumer\, author of The History of Central Asia in Four Volumes \nWho was Arminius Vambéry? A poverty-stricken\, Jewish autodidact; a linguist; traveller\, and writer; or a sometime Zionist\, inspiration for Dracula’s nemesis\, and British secret agent? \nVambéry wrote his own story many times over. And it was these often highly embroidered accounts of journeys through Persia and Central Asia that saw him acclaimed in Victorian England as an intrepid explorer and daring adventurer. Against the backdrop of the ‘Great Game’\, in which Russia and Britain jostled for territory\, influence\, and control of the borders and gateways to India and its wealth\, Vambréy played the roles of hero and double-dealer\, of fascinated witness and Imperial charlatan. \nThe Dervish Bowl is the story of these competing narratives\, a compelling investigation of the ever-changing persona Vambréy created for himself\, and of the man who emerges from his private correspondence and the accounts of both his friends and his enemies\, many of whom were themselves major players in the geopolitical adventures of the volatile nineteenth-century – a time when Britain’s ambitions for her empire were at their height\, yet nothing and no one was quite as they seemed. \nANABEL LOYD has been a regular columnist for the Indian Telegraph for many years. She has lived and worked in India and has a particular interest in the Indian history of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. \nRead Anabel’s blog piece\, ‘No Change for Turkmenistan’ on the RSAA blog here.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/anabel-loyd-the-dervish-bowl-book-launch/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Olivia Cox-Fill: Walking a Tightrope: Memories of Wu Jieping\, Personal Physician to China's Leaders
DESCRIPTION:Olivia Cox-Fill  \nWalking a Tightrope Memories of Wu Jieping\, Personal Physician to China’s Leaders  \nOlivia Cox-Fill reveals the compelling story of Dr. Wu Jieping (1917 – 2011)\, selected as personal physician to China’s leaders by Premier Zhou Enlai. \n‘All dissident scholars\, protected by those in power\, following the capitalist road\, must be eliminated.’ Chairman Mao  \nThe memoir shows what exceptional talent it took to survive and provides rare insight into life in communist China at a time when most leading intellectuals were expelled to the countryside\, imprisoned\, or beaten to death.  \nWalking A Tightrope takes us behind the Bamboo Curtain and rice paper walls to reveal the secret facts poisoning relationships between Mao Zedong and his Premier\, Zhou Enlai\, manoeuvred by Mao’s wife\, Jiang Qing. It shows how she tried to seduce and entrap Dr. Wu in order to bring Zhou Enlai down. \nIt is the only first-hand account by a trusted witness\, who was their personal physician. \nAs one of China’s most prestigious physicians\, Dr. Wu developed from an intellectual into a national leader of New China and became a vice chairman of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee. He established his global reputation in the field of urology\, (acknowledged as gifted during his post-doc studies at the University of Chicago).  This book goes behind the scenes during China’s most destructive and turbulent period\, the devastating Cultural Revolution\, characterized by Dr Wu as cultural extinction. \nDr. Wu entrusted the inside story to his friend\, Olivia Cox-Fill\, on condition that she not reveal it until he was dead. It illustrates the lavish lifestyle and demands of some of the hierarchy against a background of the appalling conditions experienced by the populace. The new edition\, with illustrative maps and photographs\, considers the repressions of the past decade and invites readers to consider what they can do now to revitalise the embers of hope and promise\, kindled during the period of “reform and opening-up” of China. It concludes with the author’s reflections on the experiences of Dr. Wu and considers parallels with life in China today. \nAuthor website: https://oliviacoxfill.com \nAuthor’s biographical note: Olivia Cox-Fill studied Medicine at University College Dublin and subsequently studied Chinese Literature and Journalism at Columbia University. She later took a two-year course in Mandarin at SOAS\, University of London. Previous Publications:  \nFor Our Daughters: How Outstanding Women Worldwide\nHave Balanced Home and Career\, Praeger 1996.\nISBN: 9780275951993 (hardback)\nChinese Edition: Nan Ren Neng Zuo de\, Nu Ren Neng Zuo de Geng Hao\, Tsinghua University Press\, 2012. \nConsultancy:  \nOlivia Cox-Fill was the Cultural Advisor for Zhuang Zi Tests His Wife by Su Liqun. [Experimental Theatre\, Yadu Enterprise Group\, 20 – 25 April 1995.] \n 
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/olivia-cox-fill-walking-a-tightrope-memories-of-wu-jieping-personal-physician-to-chinas-leaders/
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SUMMARY:Coinage of Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””] \nAbout the Book\nThe coinage of Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan represents a unique confluence of political assertion\, military ambition\, and monetary innovation. These coins are more than metal; they are chronicles of a transitional moment in South Indian history when the Mysore Kingdom rose to resist colonial expansion and asserted its sovereignty not just through battlefields\, but through mints\, symbols\, and script. For over a century\, the most referenced guide to this numismatic legacy was J R Henderson’s The Coins of Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan\, published in 1921. Henderson’s work was pioneering for its time\, and its clarity and structure have served as a foundation for collectors and scholars alike. However\, much has changed in the field since then. \nIn the last few decades\, new discoveries\, enhanced access to archival material\, digitized museum records\, and an increasingly active collector community have brought to light a wide array of coins not documented in Henderson’s catalogue. Additional mints\, both official and vassal\, have been identified. New typologies have surfaced. Inscriptions once dismissed as blundered have been re-read\, weights re-verified\, and dates realigned using both Hijri and Mauludi calendrical systems. The understanding of the political context in which these coins were struck\, across regions like Cuddapah\, Dindigul\, Chitradurga\, and Gooty\, has deepened significantly. It was with this backdrop that the need for a new\, comprehensive\, and updated catalogue became clear. This book aims to be that modern reference. It presents an expansive catalogue of the coinage issued during the reigns of Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan. \nAbout the Authors\nPurnanand B. Sanket\, born in Mysore\, India\, developed a deep interest in numismatics early in life\, particularly focusing on the coinage of Ancient Karnataka and Mysore. He pursued a Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy and later completed a Master’s in Numismatics and Archaeology from Mumbai University in 2015. His passion for historical research led him to earn a Post Graduate Diploma in Manuscriptology and Palaeography from the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) in 2020. In recognition of his dedication to Mysore coinage\, Sanket was awarded the prestigious Nicholas Lowick Fellowship by the Royal Numismatic Society (UK) in 2014\, which enabled him to study important collections across British and European museums. He continues to contribute to the numismatic field as a cofounder of the Centre of Indian Numismatic Studies (COINS) and holds life memberships in the Numismatic Society of India\, the Mumbai Coin Society\, and the Karnataka Numismatics Society. His articles and research papers have been published in leading numismatic journals\, including the Numismatic Digest\, the Oriental Numismatic Society\, and the South Indian Numismatic Society. Sanket’s meticulous scholarship and passion for Mysore coinage bring academic depth and precision to this volume on the coinage of Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan. \n  \nHeinz Bons\, from Kevelaer\, Germany\, is an IT consultant with a distinguished career in software quality assurance and systems consulting. Alongside his professional pursuits\, Heinz nurtured a lifelong fascination with coins\, which began with his first acquisition as a young man. Over the years\, his numismatic interests steadily deepened\, particularly in the coinage of Southeast Asia and India. From the beginning Mysore was one of his favourite coins areas for collection. A long-standing member of the Oriental Numismatic Society\, Heinz has actively shared his expertise with the global numismatic community\, including delivering a lecture on Mysore coinage at the 1992 ONS meeting in Leiden. His approach combines technical precision with a passion for historical detail\, and through his work on this book\, he brings a structured\, analytical lens to the study and cataloguing of Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan’s coinage. \n  \nMohit Kapoor\, born and raised in Mumbai\, India\, was introduced to the world of numismatics at a young age by his father\, Shri Rameet Kapoor\, an avid collector. Captivated by the history and artistry of coins\, Mohit soon developed a collection of his own\, which has grown to include coins from the Vijayanagar Empire\, Mughal rulers\, princely states\, British India\, and global coinages. He holds a Master’s degree in Numismatics and Archaeology from Mumbai University and has made significant contributions to the field as a researcher\, auctioneer\, and author. He co-authored the well-regarded book The Nawabs and Kings of Awadh and their Coinage in 2018\, a richly illustrated volume that has been widely referenced. In Coinage of Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan\, Mohit provided valuable inputs throughout the research and cataloguing process\, contributing to the structure and clarity of the work. His keen eye for detail and practical understanding of coinage have helped refine the catalogue and enhance the overall presentation. As the Director of Imperial Auctions\, he has played a key role in shaping the numismatic auction landscape in India. Mohit is also the Regional Secretary for South Asia of the Oriental Numismatic Society and the founder of the Centre of Indian Numismatic Studies (COINS)\, an NGO dedicated to promoting numismatic knowledge across India. His active involvement in numismatic exhibitions\, lectures\, and collaborative research continues to enrich the numismatic community. \n  \nTo join over Zoom\, please register here.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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