Colonial Networks, Indian Elites, and the New Orientalism of the Royal Asiatic Society (1823-1840) Indira Viswanathan Peterson Professor of Asian Studies Emerita, Mount Holyoke College, USA The establishment of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland in London in 1823 not only transferred the institutional center of British orientalism to the metropole…
Edinburgh University Press new journal launch at the Royal Asiatic Society Join us for the AFGHANISTAN journal launch (with wine and nibbles) at the Royal Asiatic Society, 14 Stephenson Way, NW1 2HD on Friday 25th May 6.30-8.30pm. RSVP by 21st May to ruth.campbell at eup.ed.ac.uk Afghanistan covers all subjects in the humanities including history,…
The talk "Indian Imagination in a Postcolonial Context" is based on Dr. Ashmita Khasnabish’s recent monograph Negotiating Capability and Diaspora: a Philosophical Politics which analyses how Indian philosophical imagination could bring transcendence and immanence or pragmatism together. It starts with the Amartya Sen's theory of "capability" which arose as a critique of the American philosopher…
Nancy Charley, RAS Archivist will launch her new poetry collection, Feart. This limited edition, hand-crafted book, explores childhood emotion through the externalisation of one such emotion, fear, who becomes the Feart, a girl’s companion in the trials and joys of growing up. “Part memoir, part fable, part poetry, part prose, all the everyday reality for a girl growing up…
Please register on eventbrite for this lecture https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-contribution-of-the-chinese-labour-corps-in-the-first-world-war-tickets-46229269991 John De Lucy (6pm) and Frances Wood (7.15pm) will each speak on the Chinese Labour Corps: 1. SPEAKER: John de Lucy (Grandson of WW1 CLC Officer W.J. Hawkings) TALK ABSTRACT: During the First World War Britian hired over 100,000 men from China to fill the labour shortage. In…
Farrukh Husain will be in conversation with Victoria Schofield discussing his acclaimed account of the first Afghan war entitled ‘Afghanistan in the Age of Empires’ detailing the role of Afghan women in combat, the respective merits of Afghan and British weaponry and how and why the Kabul uprising occurred on the anniversary of the battle…
When 21 Sikh soldiers stood against 10,000 men: the battle of Saragarhi In the late 19th century, tensions were heightened between Britain and Russia as the nations battled over territories in central Asia. British forces held vulnerable posts on the colonial border between British India and Afghanistan, threatened by both Russian forces and Afghan tribes.…