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In 2018 the winner was Johannes Lotze (University of Manchester) for his thesis, Translation of Empire: Mongol Legacy, Language Policy, and the Early Ming World Order, 1368-1453.

The shortlisted candidates were Kyle Jackson (University of Warwick) for Colonial Conquest and Religious Enlightenment: A Mizo History from Northeast India (c. 1980-1920); Ed Pulford (University of Cambridge) for On northeast Asian Frontiers of History and Friendship; Partha Pratim Shil (University of Cambridge) for Police Labour and State-Formation in Bengal, c.1860- c.1950; and Callie Wilkinson (University of Cambridge) for The Residents of the British East India Company at Indian Royal Courts, c. 1798-1818.

For the inaugural Bayly Prize the society appointed the adjudicators: Professor Taylor Sherman (LSE), Professor Sunil Amrith (Harvard), Professor Dame Caroline Humphrey (Cambridge), Professor James Laidlaw (Cambridge), and Professor Naoko Shimazu (Yale-NUS).

The winner was announced by Professor Sir David Cannadine, President of the British Academy, at a reception held at the Royal Asiatic Society on 30th October 2018.

The archival material is:

• 'The Bayly Prize 2018 Shortlist' - document giving biographical details of the shortlisted candidates and their theses. Computer printed, 4 pieces.
• 'The Bayly Prize and Launch of Professor Sir Christopher Bayly's Remaking the Modern World 1900-2015. Global Connections and Comparisons' - printed invitation from the President and Council of the Royal Asiatic Society to the award of the first Bayly Prize and book launch on 30 October 2018. Printed on card, 2 copies.
• 'The Bayly Prize' - printed details concerning the establishment of the Bayly Prize and the shortlisted candidates. Printed on card, 2 copies.
• Four digital photographs of the award ceremony on 30 October 2018 including some of the shortlisted candidates, Professor Lady Bayly and officers of the Society.

In 2021 the Society appointed Dr T. C.Sherman (LSE) Chair, Professor Naoko Shimazu (NUS), Professor Susanne Brandtstädter (Koln), Professor Rebecca Empson (UCL), and Professor Arne Westad (Yale ) as the adjudicating panel.

The Prize was awarded to Mallika Leuzinger (University College, London) for her thesis, Dwelling in Photography: Intimacy, Amateurism and the Camera in South Asia. The shortlisted candidates were Stefano Gandolfo (University of Oxford) for The Streams of Knowledge: Organising the Siku Quanshu and Shreyashi Dasgupta (University of Cambridge) for The Accommodation City: Private Low-Income Housing and Urban Space in Dhaka and Mumbai.

At present there is no archival material.

In 2019 the winner was Lexi (Alexandra) Stadlen (London School of Economics) for her thesis, Weaving lives from Violence: Possibility and Change for Muslim Women in West Bengal.

The shortlisted candidates were Radha Kapuria (Kings College, London) for Music in Colonial Punjab: A Social History; Ahmad Moradi (University of Manchester) for Politics of Persuasion: Making and Unmaking Revolution in Iran; and Sahil Nijhawan (University College London) for Human-animal relations and the role of cultural norms in tiger conservation in the Idu Mishmi of Arunachal Pradesh, India.

The Society received 26 submissions from 11 universities in the United Kingdom. These were considered by the panel of adjudicators consisting of Doctor Taylor Sherman (LSE), Professor Sunil Amrith (Harvard), Professor James Laidlaw (Cambridge), Professor Rebecca Empson (UCL) and Professor Naoko Shimizu (Yale-NUS). The prize was awarded at a reception at the Society on Tuesday 29th October 2019, with the winner announced by Lyndal Roper, Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford.

The archival material is:

• 'The Bayly Prize 2019 Shortlist' - document giving biographical details of the shortlisted candidates and their theses. Computer printed, 3 pieces.
• Four digital photographs showing Professor Lyndal Roper, adjudicator Taylor Sherman, the shortlisted candidates and officers of the Society.

In 2020 the Society was unable to hold an award ceremony due to the covid-19 pandemic. The judges reported a strong field of submission with three dissertations being of outstanding merit:

Liana Chase (School of Oriental and African Studies), Healing ‘Heart-Minds’: Disaster, Care, and Global Mental Health in Nepal’s Himalayan Foothills.
Hannah Theaker (University of Oxford), Moving Muslims: The Great Northwestern Rebellion and the Transformation of Chinese Islam, 1860-1896.
Hedwig Waters (University College, London), ‘Living from loan to loan’: Tracing networks of gifts, debt and trade in the Mongolian borderlands.

The Prize was awarded to Dr Liana Chase. At present there is no archival material associated with the 2020 award.

The Bayly Prize was established by friends and colleagues to mark the outstanding contribution of Professor Sir Christopher Bayly FBA to the study of world history and that of Asia in particular. It is an £2500 award for a distinguished thesis in an Asian subject falling within the scope of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society or of Modern Asian Studies. The thesis must have been examined and approved for the PhD degree at a British University in the year preceding entry to the competition. It was first awarded in 2018 and has been awarded annually since.

The winners have been:

• 2018 - Johannes Lotze (University of Manchester) for the thesis, Translation of Empire: Mongol Legacy, Language Policy, and the Early Ming World Order, 1368-1453.
• 2019 - Lexi (Alexandra) Stadlen (London School of Economics) for the thesis, Weaving lives from Violence: Possibility and Change for Muslim Women in West Bengal.
• 2020 - Liana Chase (School of Oriental and African Studies) for the thesis, Healing ‘Heart-Minds’: Disaster, Care, and Global Mental Health in Nepal’s Himalayan Foothills.
• 2021 - Mallika Leuzinger (University College, London) for the thesis, Dwelling in Photography: Intimacy, Amateurism and the Camera in South Asia.
• 2022 - Sonia Wigh (University of Exeter) for the thesis, The Body of Words: A social history of sex and the body in early modern South Asia.
• 2023 - Thomas Barrett (University of Oxford) for the thesis, Foreigners and the Making of the Chinese Diplomat.

There are administrative documents, invitations, publicity and photographs from the award events.

In 2022 the Society appointed Professor Benjamin Hopkins (George Washington University) Chair, Professor Susanne Brandtstädter (Koln), Professor Magnus Marsden (Sussex), Dr Rian Thum (Manchester), and Professor Arne Westad (Yale) to be the adjudicating panel.

The winner was Sonia Wigh (university of Exeter) for her thesis, The Body of Words: A social history of sex and the body in early modern South Asia.

The shortlisted candidates were Taushif Kara (University of Cambridge) for Abode of peace: Islam, empire and the Khoja diaspora; Katie Campbell (University of Cambridge) for Cities and the Mongol Conquest: Urban Change 1200-1400; Melyn McKay (University of Oxford) for For women there are two Nirvanas: Risk and Freedom in Myanmar’s contemporary Buddhist revival movement: and Matthew Woolgar (University of Oxford) for Communism in Context: The Indonesian Communist Party in West Java.

The archival material consists of 16 digital photographs of the award ceremony which took place on 19 January 2023.

In 2023 the Society appointed Professor Benjamin Hopkins (George Washington University), Professor Susanne Brandtstädter (Koln), Professor Magnus Marsden (Sussex), Dr Rian Thum (Manchester), and Professor Nile Green (UCLA) to be the adjudicators.

The Prize was won by Dr. Thomas Barrett (University of Oxford), for his thesis Foreigners and the Making of the Chinese Diplomat.

The shortlisted candidates were Dr. Kelsey Granger (University of Cambridge) for Gifts from afar: The Creation of an Imperial Lapdog in Tang-Song China; Dr. Mariano Errichiello (School of Oriental and African Studies) for IIme Ksnum: an Esoteric Interpretation of Zoroastrianism, History and Beliefs; and Dr Yui Chim Lo (University of Oxford) for Imagining the Continent’s Future: China, India and Post-War Asia, 1937-1949.

The archival material consists of a publicity poster (digital) for the award ceremony and 5 digital photographs taken at the event which was held on 25 May 2024.