Mysore – Royal Asiatic Society

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Dr. Jennifer Howes: The Story Tellers of Mysore: Tipu Sultan’s female entourage and the 1806 Vellore Mutiny

After the Fourth Mysore War, when the British were dismantling Tipu Sultan’s establishment, the East India Company unexpectedly took charge of 601 women who resided permanently inside Srirangapatnam Palace. Along with Tipu’s…

20 September 2021
Collections Open Evening

Do you know how to repair an Indian painting? Or mend a Persian manuscript? Do you know the story of Nana Fadnavis and the Maratha Peshwa, Madhu Rao Narayan, or the how…

25 May 2017

About the Society, British India, Conservation, Indian Art, Manuscripts, Paintings and Drawings, Persian Manuscripts, RAS Collections, RAS Lecture Series
The Elephants in the (Reading) Room

I start this blog by wishing all its readers a Happy New Year. May 2017 be a good year for you all. The beginning of this new year seemed a suitable time…

6 January 2017

Collections, RAS Collections, RAS Lecture Series, RAS Library

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