Tag / Ralph Russell
A Trio of Books
We are pleased to announce the publication of the latest Royal Asiatic Society Book – Refugees and the Politics of the Everyday State in Pakistan: Resettlement in Punjab, 1947 -1962, by Elisabetta Iob.…
27 October 2017The Last Items of Miscellaneous Box M
There are two packages left in Miscellaneous Box M. The first when opened reveals a manuscript – it is made of paper but set out like a palm leaf manuscript and housed…
19 October 2017Professor Francis Robinson (Royal Holloway), Marion Molteno and Dr. Rakhshanda Jalil: Introducing the New Edition of Ralph Russell’s Anthology of Urdu Literature A Thousand Yearnings
For many people, Urdu is indelibly associated with a bygone era: the cultural renaissance of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the face of colonial oppression, heady mushairas and romantic poetry. For…
14 September 2017Ralph Russell and the Poetry of Ghalib
On Tuesday 18th October the RAS was pleased to host the launch of a new edition of Ralph Russell’s work on Ghalib, the Urdu poet. We were delighted to be able to welcome…
20 October 2016The BBC and India
On Thursday 13th October, Dr Chandrika Kaul from the University of St Andrews presented a lecture, detailing some of her current research, as part of the RAS Lecture Series for 2016-2017. She…
14 October 2016