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On 5th July, the Royal Asiatic Society, in collaboration with Southampton University, will host the conference New Worlds of the East India Company. The conference will draw together many scholars working in…
New Histories of the East India Company
On the 4th August the Society was host to a panel on New Histories of the East India Company chaired by RAS Vice President Dr Gordon Johnson. The talk is now available…
Book launch of The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge by Dr Joshua Ehrlich
On Monday 17th July the Society hosted the book launch of The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge by Dr Joshua Ehrlich. Joshua is a historian of knowledge, political…
From Myanmar to Georgia – highlighting the breadth of the Society’s activities
On Thursday 29th June we welcomed Stephen Simmons for a launch of his book, Maymyo Days: Forgotten Lives of a Burma Hill Station. The book relates the forgotten lives of people who summered at…
James Tod and the ‘Annals and Antiquities of Rajast’han’
This Thursday (18th November) marked the anniversary of the death of the Oriental Scholar, Lieutenant-Colonel James Tod (20 March 1782 - 18 November 1835). Painting of Lt. Col James Tod from,…A Cartographic “Guide for Strangers in Madras”
This week’s blog is written by Philip Jagessar who provides an update on one of the earliest maps that the Society acquired which features a detailed town plan of Madras. Full…Ardaseer Cursetjee Wadia receives English Heritage blue plaque
Ardaseer Cursetjee Wadia (1808-1877), a pioneering naval engineer and former member of the Society has recently been awarded an English Heritage London blue plaque marking the 180th anniversary of being the first…
Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson and Cuneiform
This Friday (5th March) marks the anniversary of the death of the Orientalist and former President of the Society, Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson: 1810-1895. In 1827 he was sent, aged 17,…
Book Launch and Signing – Moin Mir (Author) in conversation with Dr. Rosie Llewellyn-Jones MBE – The Prince Who Beat the Empire: How an Indian Ruler took on the might of the East India Company
“THE PRINCE WHO BEAT THE EMPIRE. How an Indian ruler took on the might of the East India Company” published by Amberely Publishing June 2018. An acclaimed history of Empire and resistance.…
“Description of Bootan by Samuel Davis, Esq. 1783”
The sorting of the Miscellaneous Boxes continues…. (The last section about Miscellaneous Box M will come in the next few weeks – I am just waiting for some information from a manuscript…
