Last night, Thursday 11th October, the Society welcomed Dr. Mehreen Chida-Razvi from SOAS to lecture on “The Mughal Madonna: Representations of the Virgin in Jahangiri-era Architecture” in which she queried the reasons for…
The Royal Asiatic Society was founded in 1823, inspired by the model of Sir William Jones’s Asiatic Society of Bengal. From its earliest days, one of the chief ways the Society…