Recently catalogued artworks This week I have spent some time cataloguing our visual material. Those who have visited our Reading Room would probably have consulted our physical catalogue entitled Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings, Engravings and Busts in the Collection of the Royal Asiatic Society by Raymond Head. The illustrated catalogue was published in 1991 and…| Royal Asiatic Society
The Royal Asiatic Society is pleased to award the 2025 James J. Busuttil Prize and Medal for Human Rights jointly to Dr Lydia Walker for States-in-Waiting: A Counternarrative of Global Decolonization (Cambridge University Press, 2024) and Dr Sandhya Fuchs for Fragile Hope: Seeking Justice for Hate Crimes in India, (Stanford University Press, 2024). Both books are exemplary works of early…| Royal Asiatic Society
The Society held a ceremony to award its inaugural Charles H. Norchi Prize yesterday evening. It was a joyful occasion filled with engaging discussions, celebrations and drinks, and the event was well-attended by friends of the Society, scholars in the field and other guests both in-person and online. The Society would particularly like to thank…| Royal Asiatic Society