Tag / Bayly Prize
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Collections Evening and Bayly Prize
Collections Evening 2025 The Society held its annual Collections Evening last Friday (10 April). This year, we were pleased to host three presentations dedicated to different parts of the Society’s important manuscript…
Recent RAS news
Congratulations to Bayly Prize winner Dr Lexi Stadlen whose first book ‘Nine Paths: A Year in the Life of an Indian Village’ was published by Penguin Random House yesterday. The book is…
Submissions open for the 2022 Bayly Prize
The Society is pleased to announce that we are now accepting submissions for the 2022 Bayly Prize. £2500 award for a distinguished thesis in an Asian subject falling within the scope of…
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Anniversary General Meeting in the virtual world
Last Thursday evening (22nd October), the society held its Anniversary General meeting, celebrating 197 years of its existence. For the first time in the society’s history, this meeting was held virtually due…
Christopher Bayly, Stuart Simmonds and H.G. Quaritch Wales
As the bicentenary of the Royal Asiatic Society approaches in 2023, the Council, Members of the Society, and staff are already thinking of how we might like to mark the event and…
Presentation of the Inaugural Bayly Prize
On Tuesday 30th October the Society celebrated the life and work of the late Professor Sir Christopher Bayly FBA, with the award of the inaugural Bayly Prize and the posthumous launch of Sir…
Announcement of Bayly Prize
The Royal Asiatic Society is pleased to invite nominations and applications for the inaugural Bayly Prize. The award of £2,500 will be made in 2018 for an outstanding thesis in an Asian…
