Some of you may have read the recent news that in the UNESCO World Heritage Committee meeting this month, the Maratha military landscapes of India have been inscribed as one of the 26 new World Heritage Sites. This new inscription concerns not a single site, but twelve major fortifications mostly in Maharashtra State, which were…| Royal Asiatic Society
The Society’s library recently received a kind donation from the Maharana of Mewar Charitable Foundation (MMCF) in Udaipur (Rajasthan, India) of its beautiful exhibition catalogue Picturing Place: Painted and Printed Maps at the Udaipur Court. This exhibition charts how visual representations of topography and territory in Udaipur were transformed during the 19th and early 20th centuries under British colonial influence. The introduction of new European map-making practices looms large in t...| Royal Asiatic Society