AGM Lecture- Vaseem Khan: Killing Gandhi, Dante’s Divine Comedy, and India at the crossroads

Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom

In this lecture bestselling crime fiction author Vaseem Khan examines the journey India has made from the point of regaining her sovereignty after centuries of British rule to a nation that now hovers on the brink of superpower status. Vaseem’s Malabar House novels are set in 1950s Bombay, just a few years after Indian Independence, the assassination…

Book Launch – ‘Cartooning China: Punch, Power, and Politics in the Victorian Era’ By Dr Amy Matthewson

Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom

Thursday 19th May at 6.30pm   Cartooning 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…

Dr Hannah K. Bartos Book Launch: Modern Transnational Yoga: The Transmission of Posture Practice

Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom

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. When you register, please specify whether you plan to attend at the Society ‘in person’ or ‘online only’. You can register by emailing Matty Bradley at mb@royalasiaticsociety.org Free and open to…