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Rustaveli Day 2021
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomProfessor Alka Patel Booklaunch: Iran to India: The Shansabānīs of Afghanistan, c. 1145-1190 CE
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomCouncil Meeting
Royal Asiatic Society 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomDr. Jennifer Howes: The Story Tellers of Mysore: Tipu Sultan’s female entourage and the 1806 Vellore Mutiny
After the Fourth Mysore War, when the British were dismantling Tipu Sultan's establishment, the East India Company unexpectedly took charge of 601 women who resided permanently inside Srirangapatnam Palace. Along with Tipu's sons, they were moved 200 miles east, to Vellore Fort, in the Company-controlled territory of Madras Presidency. Documentation about these court women held…
Dr. Bora Keskiner: Yāqūt al-Musta’simī and the Practise of Naql in Islamic Calligraphy
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomLeena Dhingra Book Launch: Exhumation – The Life and Death of Madan Lal Dhingra
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomJoin 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. On 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…