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SUMMARY:RAS Collections Evening 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Society’s annual Collections Evening for 2026 will feature three talks exploring its manuscript and art collections from Malaysia\, India\, and Japan\, complemented with a post-talk object viewing session. The event programme is as follows: \n  \nTalk 1: Dr Farouk Yahya – The Maxwell Collection and Local Private Libraries in the Malay Peninsula during the 19th Century\nThe collection of Malay manuscripts and printed books of Sir William Maxwell (1846-1897)\, now held at the Society\, is remarkable in terms of the quantity and variety of the material\, many of which were acquired from local sources. This brief talk will explore some of the private libraries in the Malay peninsula that formed the basis of Maxwell’s collection\, providing a valuable insight into the acquisition and circulation of books in the region during the nineteenth century. \n  \nTalk 2: Niyu Lin – Listening to the Creek Beneath: The Palimpsest of the Faulds Album\nThis presentation will explore the Society’s Faulds Album (RAS 079)\, an Edo-period concertina album that appears to contain fragments of Buddhist imagery. It focuses on the often-overlooked underlying layers of painting and calligraphy beneath the Buddhist drawings attributed to the Kanda Sōtei atelier\, revealing the album as a palimpsest that records a shift from individual\, literati practice to collective\, institutional workshop production. \n  \nTalk 3: Professor Almut Hintze\, Professor Peter Cornwell\, and Dr Myriadne Wang – Title TBC\nThis presentation will address different aspects of a major project which saw the digitisation and online display of 55 notebooks from the Society’s Edward William West archive. These largely comprise copies of Zoroastrian texts made in north-west India in the later nineteenth century. They were photographed by postdoctoral students working as part of the Multimedia Yasna project (MUYA) and later made available online via an online collections platform. \n  \nFree and open to all. In person and online via Zoom. \nTo attend online\, email emd@royalasiaticsociety.org for a link.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/ras-collections-evening-2026/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Theodore Mould - In Search of Phillipo: An Armenian Merchant Between Two Empires
DESCRIPTION:This is a joint event co-hosted with the Levantine Heritage Foundation. \n— \nAbout the Lecture\nPhilip John Nigohrus\, known as Phillipo\, was an Armenian merchant from the Ottoman Empire whose contributions to Anglo-Ottoman exchange in the eighteenth century have only recently been rediscovered. Long misidentified as an anonymous groom in George Stubbs’s portrait of the Duke of Ancaster’s Eastern horse\, Phillipo was in fact a successful merchant whose trade extended across the Ottoman Empire and Europe. \nPhillipo was born in Arapgir\, in modern-day Türkiye\, in a region known as the Armenian Highlands. His early life included service as a horse soldier in the Persian army\, before he established himself in Aleppo\, a city that stood at the centre of Levantine trade. \nIn 1767 Phillipo travelled to London\, where he demonstrated Turkish leather dyeing techniques before the Society of Arts\, earning the Society’s Gold Medal. Phillipo also imported Eastern horses into England\, which he sold to the great horse breeders of the day. Aleppo was then a vital hub for this trade and Phillipo’s trade via the Levant Company placed him at its centre. On one of his journeys to London\, Phillipo also had his portrait painted by Richard Cosway\, which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in the summer of 1771. \nPhillipo’s presence was part of wider Armenian activity in London\, which included figures such as the adventurer Joseph Emin\, a friend of Edmund Burke\, and the merchant Johannes Padre Rafael\, who brought a case against East India Company officials in the London courts. Through their connections with the Levant and India\, these individuals formed part of a diasporic network that connected the intellectual and commercial life of Enlightenment Britain to the wider world. \n  \nAbout the Speaker\nTheodore Mould read History at the University of Edinburgh and Art History at the Courtauld Institute. His work has been published in The Burlington Magazine and Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. He has worked at Artclear\, a technology company digitising the transaction of physical works of art and Anthony Mould Ltd\, a London art dealership specialising in British art. He is currently training to become a barrister.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/theodore-mould-in-search-of-phillipo-an-armenian-merchant-between-two-empires/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:(AGM + Japan Series Closing Lecture) Prof Simon Kaner - Towards 150 years of Japanese archaeology and its broader Asian connections
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/agm-japan-series-closing-lecture-prof-simon-kaner-towards-150-years-of-japanese-archaeology-and-its-broader-asian-connections/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Orr - Imperial Rule in India: Paternal Governance and Conquest under the Lawrences and Montgomery
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”5/6″][vc_column_text css=””] \nImperial Rule in India: Paternal Governance and Conquest under the Lawrences and Montgomery Book Launch\nAbout the Book\nThis book explores the remarkable careers of George\, Henry and John Lawrence and Robert Montgomery (Field Marshal Montgomery of Alamein’s grandfather) who served in the East India Company during the first half of the nineteenth century. From modest backgrounds in the north of Ireland\, all four men would assume leading roles in the colonial administration of India. After initial training in England and in Calcutta\, they served their apprenticeships in the Delhi Territory and in the North-Western Provinces (modern day Uttar Pradesh) as military officers (George and Henry) and Collectors (of revenue) and District Magistrates (John and Robert). Henry would later make the move from military to civilian employment when he became a land revenue surveyor. As this book reveals\, these years were incredibly important in the formation of their administrative style. Ruling large swathes of northern India in paternal fashion\, John and Robert became highly knowledgeable on local agrarian affairs. Likewise\, Henry’s role as a revenue surveyor gave him a worm’s eye view of village life that was far removed from the cloistered environment of the military cantonment. Such experiences would cultivate an ethos of respecting local culture and institutions while exercising a high standard of public service and personal devotion to duty. The book assesses the Lawrences and Montgomery’s efforts in the challenging fields of land revenue surveying and assessment\, as well as their campaigns against female infanticide\, thuggee and other forms of criminality. Beyond India\, the part played by George and Henry in the disastrous First Anglo-Afghan War is followed in detail\, while the latter’s time as British Resident at the Court of Nepal explores his passion for writing on important Anglo-Indian topics. This study will argue that the knowledge and skills developed by this talented quartet of Irishmen provided the crucial foundations for their later careers in the Punjab and beyond. \nAbout the Author\nJonathan Orr was educated at Foyle College\, Londonderry\, and Trinity College Dublin where he read modern history. Over the years\, he has travelled extensively in both India and Pakistan. After a career in data analytics\, working in both the UK and in India\, he moved into property development. More recently\, he has been able to devote time to his passion for Anglo-Indian history. His aim\, based on an in-depth examination of archival sources\, is to provide an accessible but absorbing reassessment of the Lawrences and Montgomery’s Indian careers for both the specialist and the general reader. He lives in south-east London with his wife Shruti and son Jude. \n  \nFree and open to all. In person and online via Zoom. \nTo attend online\, email emd@royalasiaticsociety.org for a link.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Daniel Lowe - Title TBA
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/daniel-lowe-title-tba/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Dr Garima Jaju - Title TBA
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/dr-garima-jaju-title-tba/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Dr Megnaa Mehtta - Title TBA
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LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
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