Sir Alexander Johnston – Royal Asiatic Society

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Translating an Ottoman Railway Map
This week’s blog is written by Philip Jagessar who gives us an update on an interesting find he discovered within the Society’s map collections. Among the Society’s eclectic collection of foreign…
30 September 2021
2023, Acquisitions, Cartography, Collections, Events, lectures, Maps, RAS Collections, RAS History, Visits
The Founding of the RAS
Anniversary of the Inauguration of the RAS: This Monday (15th March), marked the 198th anniversary of the inauguration of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. The Society was founded…
19 March 2021
About the Society, Archives, Collections, collections evening, Henry Thomas Colebrooke, Library, RAS History, virtual events
Dr. Indira Viswanathan Peterson Guest Lecture
Colonial Networks, Indian Elites, and the New Orientalism of the Royal Asiatic Society (1823-1840) Indira Viswanathan Peterson Professor of Asian Studies Emerita, Mount Holyoke College, USA The establishment of the Royal…
8 May 2018

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