Every now and then I enjoy opening a random box on the shelf and get my teeth into something that is yet to be processed. Last week, as I was cataloguing some prints and drawings (more information in a previous blog post here), I found an item annotated ‘Chinese concertina book on rice and silk…| Royal Asiatic Society
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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 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
On Tuesday 10 December 2024, the Royal Asiatic Society was delighted to announce the launch of the annual James J. Busuttil Medal and Prize for the publication of a book on human rights, in English, preferably by someone within the first ten years of their academic career. Nominations are invited for books on human rights…| 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
We are pleased to announce that the Society recently added eighteen manuscripts to its Digital Library. They include eleven manuscripts from the Malay collections, and a further seven from the Javanese collections. Together, they represent an important addition to the Society’s digital collections from maritime South East Asia. The Malay manuscripts have been digitized in…| Royal Asiatic Society
Collections Evening 2025 The Society held its annual Collections Evening last Friday (10 April). This year, we were pleased to host three presentations dedicated to different parts of the Society’s important manuscript collection. Before the presentations, Dr Edward Weech, RAS Librarian, gave a brief introduction on how scholarly focus in the field had increasingly concentrated…| Royal Asiatic Society