Tag / Liz Driver
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Seasons Greetings from the Royal Asiatic Society
The Society would like to send seasons greetings to all of you who read our blogposts with the hope that you will have a good festive season and that 2025 will be…
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Tod Tour Part Two
Every day I am just overcome with the vastness of India as I follow our journey on the map. We travel for 6 or 8 hours and in my mind, I feel…
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News from the Second Tod Tour
The 2nd Tod Tour is well underway following in the footsteps of James Tod’s journey in Gujarat as described in his book Travels in Western India. You may remember Liz Driver’s lecture…
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Charles Ambrose Storey
I am delighted to announce that the catalogue for the Papers of Charles Ambrose Storey is now available. These papers were donated to the Society as part of Storey’s bequest and have…
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From Singapore to Windsor Castle
This week’s title reflects the breadth of activities which have been happening at, or associated with the Society, its staff and fellows: Donna Maree Brunero of the National University, Singapore gave a…
Dr Elizabeth Driver – A Bicentenary Tour of the Royal Asiatic Society (Part 2)
Two important Rajput forts Tod was greatly moved by the great Rajput forts of Kumbalgarh and Chittorgarh, which he visited under very different circumstances. Kumbalgarh Kumbalgarh had been…
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…
