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The 201st Anniversary of the Royal Asiatic Society
Last year, 2023, we celebrated the Society’s bicentenary – celebrations that are continuing into 2024. However today, 15th March 2024, marks the 201st anniversary of the inauguration of the Society. Therefore I…
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Dr Norbert Peabody on the launch of the reissue of James Tod’s Annals and Antiquities of Rajast’han
On Wednesday the Society launched its three volume reissue of James Tod’s Annals and Antiquities of Rajast’han at the Brunei Gallery, with Maharaj Kumar Sahib Dr Lakshyaraj Singh Mewar of Udaipur in…
Dr Elizabeth Driver – A Bicentenary Tour of the Royal Asiatic Society (Part 1)
Visiting some of the places described by Tod in the Personal Narratives of the Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan. Introduction Col James Tod is, of course, important to us as the…
In the footsteps of James Tod
As part of the Anniversary celebrations the RAS welcomed a proposal from Dr Elizabeth Driver that a visit to India in the Spring of 2023 be undertaken to trace James Tod’s journeys…
Intertextual and Material Culture: Researching the RAS Collections
This week’s blog post is by Ruth Westoby. Handwritten on paper in Sanskrit, using devanāgarī script, is a manuscript of the Śārṅgadharapaddhati which forms part of the Royal Asiatic Society’s Tod collection.…
A 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…
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Farewell
Today (1st October) is my last day at the Society. By the time I walk out of the door this evening, I will have been at the Society exactly 6 years. I…
More 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…
Henry Colebrooke Writes Again…
This week, we are indebted again to “Henry Colebrooke” for our blog post: According to the inscription on the verso of the above painting, it shows my friend James Tod making his…
A Blog from Henry Colebrooke
This week, we have a guest blogger. Written in the voice of Henry Colebrooke, the Royal Asiatic Society’s founder in 1823, we learn of a new project, one of the ways in…
