Tag / Norbert Peabody
Drawing to the end of our bicentenary year
This will be the last blog post of 2023, the year of the bicentenary of the Society, and though bicentennial activities are continuing into 2024, with further celebratory lectures and a forthcoming…
15 December 2023Dr 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…
8 December 2023The Approach of the Royal Asiatic Society’s Anniversary
Often when I, Nancy Charley, write the blog post I include information of some anniversary – either commemorating the birth or death of a person who has been involved with the Royal…
29 July 2022James 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,…19 November 2021The significance of The Oriental Translation Fund and the role of Forster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot
This week’s blog post focusses on the cataloguing of The Oriental Translation Fund papers. Very little has been published around the work of the fund which has been significant in funding published…
23 October 2020Dr. Norbert Peabody receives the Colonel James Tod Award
On 1st March 2020, Dr Norbert Peabody was bestowed with the Colonel James Tod Award by the Udaipur-based Maharana of Mewar Charitable Foundation (MMCF). This award was instituted in 1996-97 as part…
13 March 2020A 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…
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