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- 1963 - 1969 (Creation)
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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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Printed admittance tickets for lectures held at the Society. Some of these have been annotated with the numbers of people attending the lecture:
1963
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14 November: Sir Richard Winstedt, 'Thirty-two Years in Malaya'. 12 December: Margaret Medley, 'Ceramic Design and Industry in the Ming Period'.
1964
- 12 March: H.L. Shorto, 'The Thirty-seven Nats'.
- 11 June: Dr F.R. Allchin, 'The Indo-Greeks and their Successors in Gandhara (Further Excavations at Charsada, 1963)'. This card has had the date crossed out, 8 October inserted, and that crossed out too.
- 8 October: E.H.S. Simmonds, 'Literature and Society in Thailand'.
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12 November: Dr D.L. Snellgrove, 'The Decline of Tibetan Civilization'. 10 December: J. Burton-Page, 'The Building Art of Bijapur'.
1965
- 14 January: H.E. Richardson, 'Early Tibetan Civilization'.
- 11 February: Dr. Cheng Te-Kun, 'Archaeology in the People's Republic of China'.
- 11 March: Dr Carmen Blacker, 'Mountain Cults in Japanese Buddhism'.
- 8 April: Professor E.G. Pulleybank, 'Chinese and Indo-Europeans'.
- 10 June: Dr J. Elfenbein, 'In Baluchistan'.
*14 October: B.W. Robinson, 'Some Persian Manuscripts in the Chester Beatty Library'. - 11 November: Dr F.R. Allchin, 'The Place of Tulsī Dās in North Indian Devotional Tradition'.
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9 December: Professor Owen Lattimore, 'Some Recent Publications of Mongol Historians'.
1966
- 13 January: Professor Gordon H. Luce, 'The career of Htilaing Min (Kyanzittha), the Uniter of Burma fl. 1084-1113 A.D.' This lecture took place after the presentation of the Society's Triennial Gold Medal to Professor Luce.
- 10 February: Ralph Russell, 'Ghālib (1797-1869), Self-Portrait of a Delhi Nobel and Poet'.
- 10 March: Miss K.M. Kenyon, 'Excavations in Jerusalem'.
- 14 April: Dr I.M.P. Raeside, 'The Mahānubhāva Sect'.
- 19 June: Dr. C.R. Bawden, 'The Anti-Manchu Rebellion of 1756-7'.
- 12 October: Dr. A.D.H. Bivar, 'Mesopotamian Elements in Roman Mithraism'.
- 17 November: Professor Yigael Yadin, 'Masada of Herod and the Zealots'.
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8 December: Dr J. de Casparos, 'The Unity of the Realm'.
1967
- 12 January: Professor D.C. Twitchett, 'Evidence from Tun-Huang on the T'ang Governing Class'. The lecture was preceded by the presentation of the Burton Memorial Medal to Wilfred Thesiger.
- 9 February: Mrs Mildred Archer, 'Birds and Flowers in Indian Painting'.
- 9 March: Dr G. Fehérvári, 'Ayyūbbid Metalwork in Syria'.
- 13 April: Dr C.E. Bosworth, 'The Coming of Islam to Afghanistan'.
- 12 October: Professor D.M. Lang, 'Old and New in Georgia and Armenia'.
- 9 November: Dr Romila Thapar, 'The Tradition of Historical Writing in Early India'.
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14 December: Dr C.A. Macartney, ' The Maygars Eastern Auxiliaries'.
1968
- 11 January: Professor O.R. Gurney, 'The Hittite Shrine of Yazilikaya'.
- 8 February: Dr T.M. Johnston, 'The Middle East Command expedition to Socotra, 1967'.
- 14 March: E.H.S. Simmonds, 'The Nature and Function of Court Entertainment in Old Siam'.
- 4 April: Professor W. Watson, 'The King of Tien (Yunnan, 1st Century BC)'.
- 13 June: The Hon. Sir Steven Runciman, 'The Fate of the Byzantine Churches in Ottoman Istanbul'.
- 10 October: Dr C.J. Dunn, 'Aspects of the Japanese Puppet Drama'.
- 14 November: C.H.B. Reynolds, 'The Maldive Islands'.
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12 December: G.R. Tibbetts, 'The Origins of Arab Monsoon Navigation'.
1969
- 9 January: Professor E. Ullendorf, 'A Jewish Tribe in Ethiopia?'.
- 13 February: Professor J. Segal, 'Christianity in Mesopotamia during the First Two Centuries of the Common Era'.
- 13 March: Miss B.E. Ward, 'The Boat People of Hong Kong'.
- 10 April: Susan Skilliter, 'English Pirates in Turkey in 1581'.
- 12 June: Peter Parr, 'An Archaeological Reconnaissance in North-West Arabia'.
- 19 June: John Burton-Page, 'Iranian, Central Asian and Indigenous Currents in the Arts of the Mughal Courts: A Cultural Synthesis'. This event took place in Manchester.
- 9 October: Brigadier S.H. Longrigg, 'Arabia: The Last Fifty Years'.
- 13 November: Professor R.C. Zaehner, 'Yudhishthira: A Crisis of Conscience'. This was a lecture to mark Gandhi Centenary Commemoration.
- 11 December: Dr. M.A.N. Loewe, 'Witchcraft and Han Dynastic History 91-74 B.C.'.
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