RAS Lecture series 2024-25

  This talk aims to re-assess Tod's role as Political Agent in the Western Rajput States for the brief period 1818-1822 and to determine what went wrong. It will address Tod's visit to Maharaja Man Singh in Jodhpur but the focus will be on the events in Kotah in 1820-21. It will draw on Tod's…

*PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED*  

It is a sign of the growing maturity of the field of Islamic art history that there are already many introductory surveys. Some attempt to cover all regions and periods, though it is more common for these books to establish chronological and geographical boundaries. More recently, introductions to the study of Islamic material and visual…

Detail of Buddha image in carved into the rock face in mahāparinibbāṇa on the Phu Wiang Mountain range, Chaiyaphum province, Thailand. Late 8th to early 9th century. Author’s photograph. The Khorat Plateau is a landscape of some 155,000 square kilometres of what is now northeast Thailand and central Laos. Despite the rich evidence for the…