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Name: Professor Robert Arnott Book Launch: Crossing Continents
Start: 2022-07-12T18:30:00+01:00
End: 2022-07-12T21:00:00+01:00

March 2017
2 March 2017 @ 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm GMT
Book Launch. Shadow States: India, China and the Himalayas, 1910–1962 (Bérénice Guyot-Réchard, King’s College London)

Royal Asiatic Society Council Room 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom
Since the mid-twentieth century China and India have entertained a difficult relationship, erupting into open war in 1962. Shadow States is the first book to unpack Sino-Indian tensions from the angle of competitive state-building - through a study of their simultaneous attempts to win the approval and support of the Himalayan people. When China and…
October 2018
4 October 2018 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm BST
Dr. Rosie Llewellyn-Jones MBE (Independent Scholar) – ‘My Dear Schomberg’: Letters from Sir Aurel Stein

Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom
Sir Aurel Stein’s life and work has been extensively examined in books and biographies. He was a prolific letter writer but surprisingly none of his biographers have commented on the correspondence with Colonel Reginald Schomberg during the last decade of his life. The two men met each other in Oxford and later at the British…
March 2019
7 March 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm GMT
Dr. Jharna Gourlay (University of Lucknow) – Forceps, Stethoscopes and Sisterhood: British Female Doctors in 19th Century India

Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom
At the end of the nineteenth century a very special group of British women went to India. They were the doctors and nurses. Most of them were missionaries, but a significant number was secular, not associated with any specific denominations. They wanted to provide medical care to the respectable Indian women who lived in seclusion…
July 2022
12 July 2022 @ 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm BST
Professor Robert Arnott Book Launch: Crossing Continents

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