Tag / Digitization
Working with the Royal Asiatic Society’s Collections
Yesterday evening (Thursday 23rd March) we held a Collections Evening. This is one of the highlights of the year for the Collections Team, librarian, Edward Weech, and myself, Nancy Charley, archivist. The…
24 March 2023New Digitization and New Discoveries in the Photograph Collection
The Society’s collection is diverse not only in the places and topics it covers, but also in the formats and media it contains. Once upon a time, the Society even held a…
17 February 2023New Digitization, and a Festschrift for Dr Barbara Brend
We are delighted to announce that two manuscripts have been added to the Society’s online collections and can now be read in full on our Digital Library. These are a Bustan of…
10 February 2023A Tribute For The Legacy Of James Tod
We are pleased to introduce this tribute from Dr Shuchi Gupta (CCS University, Meerut), who has generously sponsored the digitization of our manuscript RAS Tod 126, comprising two texts on Indian history…
2 December 2022Digitization Sponsorship for RAS Bicentenary
Over the past several years, the Society has digitized some of the most important parts of its collection, and has made digital facsimiles of manuscripts, archives, and artworks freely available via the…
30 September 2022More RAS Manuscripts Now Online
We are delighted to announce that two more manuscripts from the Society’s collection have been digitized, and are now available to view in their entirety on the RAS Digital Library. The first…
24 June 2022Digitization of Akhbarat
The Society is delighted to announce the digitization of an important collection of Akhbarat, or court reports/newsletters, pertaining chiefly to the reign of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb (1618-1707, r. 1658-1707). Arranged by regnal…
22 April 2022More RAS Manuscripts Now Online
While the Society’s building has been closed for the last few months, we have been looking for ways to continue making collections and other interesting content available to our members and wider…
18 June 2020Project to digitize RAS Palm Leaf Manuscripts now underway
The Society recently embarked on a project to digitize its collection of palm leaf manuscripts, in a partnership with The Internet Archive sponsored by the Kahle/Austin Foundation. The Society’s historic collections include…
27 July 2018Digitized Versions of three RAS Manuscripts available thanks to Cambridge Digital Library
On Monday 3 July 2017 we travelled to Cambridge for the launch of digitized versions of three important manuscripts belonging to the Royal Asiatic Society. These are held on long-term loan at Cambridge…
4 July 2017