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- 1901 - ongoing (Creation)
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1 folder +electronic handwritten, typed, computer printed, printed and electronic
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The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland was founded by the eminent Sanskrit scholar Sir Henry Thomas Colebrooke on the 15th March 1823. It received its Royal Charter from King George IV on the 11th August 1824 'for the investigation of subjects connected with and for the encouragement of science, literature and the arts in relation to Asia'. It continues as a forum for those who are interested in the languages, cultures and history of Asia to meet and exchange ideas.
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Simon Everard Digby was born in India in 1932 and was educated at Stowe School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He travelled in India and Pakistan before returning to England to complete a PhD at the School of Oriental and Africa Studies. He returned to India in 1961-1962 and continued to make trips to India throughout his life. He was Honorary Librarian of the Royal Asiatic Society from 1968-1984. In 1972 he was appointed to a post in the Department of Eastern Art of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. He also taught and examined post-graduate students at SOAS. He died in Delhi in 2010 from pancreatic cancer.
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The majority of administrative correspondence is only kept for its working life. This series contains representative samples of the types of administrative letters and those considered to be of archival value, dating from 1901 to the current day.
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Some documents are closed. Please contact the archivist for further details.
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- English
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- Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (Subject)
- Rapson E. J. 1861-1937 (Subject)
- Bailey Harold Walter 1899-1996 (Subject)
- Ullendorff Edward 1920-2011 (Subject)
- Phillips Cyril Henry 1912-2005 (Subject)
- Allen W. E. D. 1901-1973 (Subject)
- Daniyalov G. D (Subject)
- Digby Simon Everard 1932-2010 (Subject)
- Hardy Friedhelm 1943-2004 (Subject)
- Bosworth Clifford Edmund (Subject)
- Bagley F. R. C. 1915-1997 (Subject)
- Walker Anthony R. b 1940 anthropologue (Subject)
- Beckingham, Charles Fraser, 1914-1998 (Subject)