Subseries RAS LEC4/6/2 - Administrative documents

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GB 891 RAS LEC4-RAS LEC4/6-RAS LEC4/6/2

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Administrative documents

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  • 1990 - 1999 (Creation)

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(1823-present)

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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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(1932-2010)

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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. During this time he worked to identify some of these documents. 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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Correspondence and administrative documents connected with lectures:

  • Correspondence with Dr Martina Deuchler, 1 item, dated 22 May 1990.
  • Correspondence with Jamie James, 1 item, dated 5 September 1990.
  • Correspondence with John Hansman, 1 item, dated 21 February 1991.
  • Administrative documents and news cuttings concerning the memorial lecture in memory of W.B. Henning, 9 May 1991, 4 items, dated 7-9 May 1991.
  • Correspondence with Giles Tillotson, 1 item, dated 2 June 1991.
  • Correspondence with N.F. Howard, 1 items, dated 18 December 1991.
  • Correspondence with Dr S.N. Lieu, 1 item, dated 25 February 1992.
  • Correspondence with Beth McKillop, 1 item, dated 22 February 1993.
  • Correspondence with Dr M.J. Morris, 1 item, dated 5 December 1993.
  • Correspondence with Lilla Russell-Smith, 1 item, dated 15 November 1994.
  • Correspondence with J.P. Losty, 1 item, dated 29 September 1995.
  • Correspondence with Dr James Dickie, 1 item, dated 5 January 1996.
  • Correspondence with Hongxing Zhang, 1 item, dated 21 January 1996.
  • Correspondence with Professor G.M. Bongard-Levin, 1 item, dated 21 February 1997.
  • Correspondence with Professor Claudes Jacques, 2 items, dated 23 July 1997 - 4 March 1999.
  • Correspondence with Professor Christopher Shackle, 2 items, dated 19-26 August 1997.
  • Correspondence with Dr Elizabeth Moore, 2 items, dated 26-28 August 1997.
  • Correspondence with Raymond Head, 1 item, dated 27 August 1997.
  • Correspondence with Dr Vesta Curtis, 2 items, dated 1 -2 September 1997.
  • Correspondence with Peter R.E. Willey, 4 items, dated 6 November 1997 - 26 February 1998.
  • Correspondence with John Leach, 2 items, dated, 27 November - 17 December 1997.
  • Correspondence with Professor G. Rex Smith, 3 items, dated 27 January - 29 September 1998.
  • Correspondence with Mushirul Hasan, 2 items, dated 29 January - 11 March 1998.
  • Correspondence concerning a letter by G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville, 3 items, dated 13-24 February 1998.
  • Correspondence with Professor Michael Rogers, 2 items, dated 1 May - 26 June 1998.
  • Correspondence with Simon Digby, 3 items, dated 23 May - 29 September 1998.
  • Correspondence with Julian Sherrier, 2 items, dated 11 June - 13 July 1998.
  • Correspondence with Dr Jenny Balfour-Paul, 2 items, dated 18 June - 22 September 1998.
  • Correspondence with Dr R.K. de Silva, 1 item, dated 19 June 1998.
  • Correspondence with Dr A. Walls, 1 item, dated 13 July 1998.
  • Correspondence with Dr C. William Radice, 2 items, dated 4 - 8 September 1998.
  • Correspondence with Professor Robert B. Betts, 1 item, dated 24 September 1998 and a map of the Syrian area needed for his lecture of 8 April 1999.
  • Correspondence concerning the possibility of the Society hosting a book launch for William Dalrymple's 'The Age of Kali: Travels and Encounters in India', 2 items, dated 7 - 16 October 1998.
  • Correspondence with Farrokh Vajifdar, 3 items, dated 15 -19 April 1999.

There is also a set of correspondence specifically about the Summer Lecture Series of 1998, These include correspondence with Fenella Goddard, Romila Thapar, Claudes Jacques, Karl Phillips, Philip Scott, Keith Whitlam, David Hawkins, and Maurizio Tozzi, 35 items, dated 9 July 1997 - 5 May 1998.

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