File RAS JOUR/12/3 - Correspondence 1971-1990

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Reference code

GB 891 RAS JOUR-RAS JOUR/12-RAS JOUR/12/3

Title

Correspondence 1971-1990

Date(s)

  • 1971 - 1990 (Creation)

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Extent and medium

23 pieces typed and handwritten

Context area

Name of creator

(1823-present)

Administrative history

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 ofread more

Name of creator

Name of creator

(18/02/1914 – 30/09/1998)

Name of creator

Name of creator

(1932-2010)

Biographical history

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 toread more

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Correspondence concerned with the Journal sent and received in the 1970s and 1980s. These are:

  • Correspondence between the Royal Asiatic Society, W.E.D. Allen and Professor G.A. Daniyalov, Vice-President of the Daghestan Filiale of the Soviet Academy of
  • read more

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Conditions governing access

These documents are open for research.

Language of material

  • English

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