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The Agendas, Minutes and Papers for the Library Committee Meetings for 2019, covering the following meetings:

• 10 January 2019
• 25 April 2019
• 26 September 2019

Copy of the Society's Standing Orders dated to January 2019.

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.

Publicity posters for Lectures and Book Launches from 2018-2019. These are mixed physical and electronic documents.

• 12 September 2018: Captain Jay Singh-Sohal, presentation of the film, 'Saragarhi: The True Story'.
• 18 September 2018: Dr Rose Kerr, 'Arrow Vase: From Ritual to Game'.
• 20 September 2018: Dr Gulfishan Khan, 'The Indo-Persian elite and the Formation of Orientalist Tradition'.
• 4 October 2018: Dr Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, 'My Dear Schonberg: Letters from Sir Aurel Stein'.
• 11 October 2018: Dr Mehreen Chida-Razvi, 'The Mughal Madonna: Representations of the Virgin in Jahangiri-era Architecture'.
• 23 October 2018: Peter Hibbard, 'More than a Stuffed Bird Show: The RAS Legacy in Shanghai'.
• 25 October 2018: Professor Anna Contadini, 'The Pisa Griffin and the Mari-Cha Lion: Metalwork, Art, and Technology in the Medieval Islamicate Mediterranean'.
• 2 November 2018: Dr George Michell and Dr Helen Philon, 'Islamic Architecture of Deccan India', book launch.
• 6 November 2018: the Georgian Embassy, 'Unlocking the Door,' an evening of Georgian literature.
• 7 November 2018: Omar Khan, 'Paper Jewels: Postcards from the Raj', book launch. (Physical document.)
• 8 November 2018: Dr Christoph Baumer, 'Central Asia in the 21st Century, lecture hosted by the Royal Society for Asian Affairs, Royal Asiatic Society, IB Tauris and the Centre for Contemporary Asia, and SOAS, held at Brunei gallery Lecture Theatre.
• 15 November 2018: Moin Mir with Dr Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, 'The Prince who Beat the Empire', book launch.
• 20 November 2019: Dr Jacob Ghazarian, 'The Ancient Silk Road: Its enduring impact on China and renewed objectives'.
• 11 December 2018: Professor Ian Gow, 'The Scottish Sinologist Alexander Wylie (1815-1887): Missionary, Man of Letters, Mathematician'.
• 13 December 2018: Dr Alexandra Green, 'Sir Stamford Raffles: Civilised Views of Java'.
• 10 January 2019: Dr Cailah Jackson, 'The Arts of the Book in a Time of Conflict: Manuscripts of Late Medieval Konya'.
• 7 February 2019: Dr John Clarke, 'Collecting Tibet at the South Kensington Museum: the legacy of the 1904 expedition and beyond'.
• 19 February 2019: Dr Oliver Crawford, 'The Languages of Indonesian Socialism'.
• 26 February 2019: Deborah Freeman Fahid, 'The Ager Rock Crystal Chessmen: Some Early Medieval Imports from the Iranian World?'.
• 7 March 2019: Dr Jharna Gourlay, 'Forceps, Stethoscopes and Sisterhood: British Female Doctors in 19th Century India'.
• 14 March 2019: Dr Yossef Rapoport, 'Lost Maps of the Caliphs: Drawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo'.
• 19 March 2019: Ursula Sims-Williams, 'Tipu Sultan's Library: Building a Collection'.
• 11 April 2019: Dr Rayna Denison, 'The Hidden History of Studio Ghibli: Short Films, Advertising and the Industrial Reality of Japanese Animation'.
• 23 April 2019: Dr Talat Ahmed in conversation with Professor David Arnold. 'Mohandas Gandhi: Experiments in Civil Disobedience', book launch.
• 25 April 2019: Dr Simon Wolfgang Fuchs, 'When Tehran was the Brightest Star: A Global History of the 1979 Iranian Revolution'.
• 2 May 2019: Philip Davies, 'Lost Warriors - Seagrim and Pagani of Burma - The Last Great Untold Story of WWII'.
• 9 May 2019: Jonathan Phillips, '"Saladin we have returned!": The Myriad Memories of the Crusades in the Near East during the Modern Era'.
• 13 May 2019: Nawal Nasrallah, 'Treasure Trove of Benefits and Variety at the Table: A Fourteenth-Century Egyptian Cookbook', special ticketed event.
• 21 May 2019: Cheryl Porter, 'Painting Manuscripts with Metal and Insects: Grind or flatten, catch and cook'.
• 6 June 2019: Edward Weech, 'Systems of Religion and Morality in the Collections of the Royal Asiatic Society'.
• 18 June 2019: Susan Stronge, 'The Lapidary Arts of the Mughal Empire in the 17th and 18th centuries'.
• 27 June 2019: Dr Ravinder Reddy, 'Numinous Imagery on Arms and Armour of the Indian Subcontinent'.
• 28 June 2019: Chanchal B. Dadlani, 'From Stone to Paper: Architecture as History in the Late Mughal Empire'; and Ünver Rüstem, 'Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul', in conversation with Dr Sussan Babaie, book launch.
• 30 July 2019: Dr Sarah Tiffin, 'Raffles and the Course of Empire: Decoding Ruin Imagery in the History of Java'.

Photographs from:

• 18 September 2018: Dr Rose Kerr, 'Arrow Vase: From Ritual to Game', 6 images.
• 20 September 2018: Dr Gulfishan Khan, 'The Indo-Persian elite and the Formation of Orientalist Tradition', 5 images.
• 4 October 2018: Dr Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, 'My Dear Schonberg: Letters from Sir Aurel Stein', 5 images.
• 11 October 2018: Dr Mehreen Chida-Razvi, 'The Mughal Madonna: Representations of the Virgin in Jahangiri-era Architecture', 2 images.
• 25 October 2018: Professor Anna Contadini, 'The Pisa Griffin and the Mari-Cha Lion: Metalwork, Art, and Technology in the Medieval Islamicate Mediterranean', 23 images.
• 2 November 2018: Dr George Michell and Dr Helen Philon, 'Islamic Architecture of Deccan India', book launch, 7 images.
• 6 November 2018: Professor Donald Rayfield, Dr. Gillian Evison and Ms. Lia Chokoshvili, 'Unlocking the Door: Writing from Georgia', 16 images.
• 7 November 2018: Omar Khan, 'Paper Jewels: Postcards from the Raj', book launch, 6 images.
• 15 November 2018: Moin Mir with Dr Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, 'The Prince who Beat the Empire', book launch, 6 images.
• 20 November 2019: Dr Jacob Ghazarian, 'The Ancient Silk Road: Its enduring impact on China and renewed objectives', 5 images.
• 11 December 2018: Professor Ian Gow, 'The Scottish Sinologist Alexander Wylie (1815-1887): Missionary, Man of Letters, Mathematician', 5 images.
• 10 January 2019: Dr Cailah Jackson, 'The Arts of the Book in a Time of Conflict: Manuscripts of Late Medieval Konya', 6 images.
• 7 February 2019: Dr John Clarke, 'Collecting Tibet at the South Kensington Museum: the legacy of the 1904 expedition and beyond', 4 images.
• 19 February 2019: Dr Oliver Crawford, 'The Languages of Indonesian Socialism', 5 images.
• 26 February 2019: Deborah Freeman Fahid, 'The Ager Rock Crystal Chessmen: Some Early Medieval Imports from the Iranian World?', 3 images.
• 7 March 2019: Dr Jharna Gourlay, 'Forceps, Stethoscopes and Sisterhood: British Female Doctors in 19th Century India', 3 images.
• 14 March 2019: Dr Yossef Rapoport, 'Lost Maps of the Caliphs: Drawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo', 3 images.
• 19 March 2019: Ursula Sims-Williams, 'Tipu Sultan's Library: Building a Collection', 4 images.
• 11 April 2019: Dr Rayna Denison, 'The Hidden History of Studio Ghibli: Short Films, Advertising and the Industrial Reality of Japanese Animation', 2 images.
• 23 April 2019: Dr Talat Ahmed in conversation with Professor David Arnold. 'Mohandas Gandhi: Experiments in Civil Disobedience', book launch, 2 images.
• 25 April 2019: Dr Simon Wolfgang Fuchs, 'When Tehran was the Brightest Star: A Global History of the 1979 Iranian Revolution', 3 images.
• 2 May 2019: Philip Davies, 'Lost Warriors - Seagrim and Pagani of Burma - The Last Great Untold Story of WWII', 3 images.
• 9 May 2019: Professor Jonathan Phillips, ''Saladin, we have returned!': The Myriad Memories of the Crusades in the Near East during the Modern Era', 11 images.
• 13 May 2019: Nawal Nasrallah, 'Treasure Trove of Benefits and Variety at the Table: A Fourteenth-Century Egyptian Cookbook', book launch, 9 images.
• 21 May 2019: Cheryl Porter, 'Painting Manuscripts with Metal and Insects: Grind or flatten, catch and cook', 8 images.
• 29 May 2019: Dominic Faulder, 'Anand Panyarachun and the Making of Modern Thailand', book launch, 6 images.
• 6 June 2019: Edward Weech, 'Systems of Religion and Morality in the Collections of the Royal Asiatic Society', 3 images.
• 18 June 2019: Susan Stronge, 'The Lapidary Arts of the Mughal Empire in the 17th and 18th centuries', 5 images.
• 27 June 2019: Dr Ravinder Reddy, 'Numinous Imagery on Arms and Armour of the Indian Subcontinent', 4 images.
• 30 July 2019: Dr Sarah Tiffin, 'Raffles and the Course of Empire: Decoding Ruin Imagery in the History of Java' 5 images.

The Agendas, Minutes and Papers for the Library Committee Meetings for 2018.

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.

Photographs from:

• 12 October 2017: Russell Harris, 'A Journal of Three Months' Walk in Persia in 1884 by Captain John Compton Pyne', 4 images.
• 26 October 2017: Dr Yuka Kadoi, 'Arthur Upham Pope and A New Survey of Persian Art', book launch, 6 images.
• 2 November 2017: Charles Allen, 'Coromandel: A Personal history of South India', book launch, 4 images.
• 9 November 2017: Dr Andrew Arsan, 'Beyond Formal and Informal Imperialism: Beirut, Hong Kong, and the Growth of European Power, c.1830-1870', 4 images.
• 16 November 2017: Professor David Park, 'Preserving the Buddhist Wall Paintings of Bhutan', 7 images.
• 23 November 2017: Dr Elaine Wright, 'Lapis and Gold: Exploring Chester Beatty's Ruzbihan Qur'an', 8 images.
• 7 December 2017: Dr Diana Lange, 'Exploring Tibet in the Mid 19th Century: The British Library's Wise Collection', 4 images .
• 7 December 2017: David Leffman, 'William Mesny: How a British Adventurer Became a General in Qing-Dynasty China', 6 images.
• 11 January 2018: Professor Christopher Fuller, 'European Science and Colonial Anthropology in British India, c.1871-1911', 5 images.
• 17 January 2018: "Anglo-Indian and Minority Politics in South Asia" by Uther Charlton-Stevens, 'Refugees and the Politics of the Everyday State in Pakistan Resettlement in Punjab, 1947-1962" by Elisabetta Iob, "Urbanisation, Citizenship and Conflict in India Ahmedabad 1900-2000" by Tommaso Bobbio; book launch with introduction by Professor Francis Robinson, 7 images.
• 18 January 2017: Dr Mark Condos, 'Anarchists, Revolutionaries, and Franco-British Imperial Policing in French Chandernagore, 1905-1930', 4 images.
• 23 January 2018: Dr Alban von Stockhausen, 'Images and (Post)colonial Encounters: A History of the Visual Representation of the Nagas of Northeast India', 3 images.
• 8 February 2018: Dr Annabel Gallop, 'The Great Seal of Aceh', 5 images.
• 20 February 2018: Amy Matthewson, 'Mr Punch and Chinamania: Blue Willow China and Consumer Consumption in 'Punch' Magazine, 1874-1880', 4 images.
• 6 March 2018: Professor Mercedes Volait, 'The Domestic Collecting of Islamic Artefacts in 19th Century Cairo: The Meymar Objects at the Victoria and Albert Museum', 4 images.
• 8 March 2018: Dr Peter Webb, 'Arab Origins: Identity, History and Islam', 9 images.
• 15 March 2018: Robert Irwin, 'Ibn Khaldun', book launch, 3 images.
• 20 March 2018: Dr Zeynep Yürekli-Görkay, 'An Ottoman Sense of Place: Topographical illustration between Europe and Iran', 5 images.
• 27 March 2018: Drs George Michell and Gethin Rees 'Buddhist Rock-Cut Monasteries of the Western Ghats', 6 images.
• 10 April 2018: Ezra Rashkow, Sanjukta Ghosh and Upal Chakrabarti (editors), 'Memory, Identity and the Colonial Encounter in India: Essays in Honour of Peter Robb', book launch, 13 images.
• 12 April 2018: Dr Omniya Abdel-Barr, 'K.A.C. Creswell's Photographic Archive at the V&A Museum', 8 images.
• 17 April 2018: Professor Francis Robinson, 'Jamal Mian', book launch, 9 images.
• 19 April 2018: John Falconer, 'A Glorious Galaxy of Monuments: Photography and Archaeology in India in the 19th Century', 2 images.
• 26 April 2018: Dr Alex McKay, 'The View from the Palace: The Sikkim Royal Archives', 4 images.
• 3 May 2018: Professor Anthony Stockwell, 'Plunder and Restitution: Britain and the Mandalay Regalia', 6 images.
• 15 May 2018: Dr Deniz Tuerker, 'The Yildiz Kiosk and the Queen Mothers of the Tanzimat Era: Gender, Landscape and Visibility'; and 17 May 2018: Dr. Indira Viswanathan Peterson, 'The Royal Asiatic Society's recruitment of elite Indians in its foundational years, making specific reference to the relationship between the RAS's VP Sir Alexander Johnston (1775-1849) and King Serfoji II of Tanjore (r. 1798-1832)' , 9 images.
• 29 May 2018: Dr Ashmita Khasnabish, 'Indian Imagination in a Postcolonial Context', 3 images.
• 31 May 2018: Nancy Charley, 'Feart', book launch, 5 images.
• 7 June 2018: Dr. Umberto Bongianino, 'Like Sweet-Smelling Blooms: Arabic Calligraphy in the Islamic West', 3 images.
• 14 June 2018, Professor Ornit Shani, 'How India became democratic', 8 images.
• 15 June 2018: John de Lucy, 'The Chinese Labour Corps 1917-1920 & their role in the First World War'; and Frances Wood, 'Essential but Unacknowledged: The Contribution of the CLC in WW1', lectures as part of the British Chinese Armed Forces Heritage Exhibition Roadshow at the Royal Asiatic Society, 22 May-18 June 2018, 8 images.
• 18 June 2018: Professor Robert Dankoff, 'Ottoman Explorations of the Nile', book launch, 14 images.

Publicity posters for Lectures and Book Launches from 2017-2018. These are a mixture of physical and electronic documents.

• 26 October 2017: Dr Yuka Kadoi, 'Arthur Upham Pope and A New Survey of Persian Art', book launch. (Physical document.)
• 26 October 2017: Professor Francis Robinson, Marion Molteno and Dr Rakjshanda Jalil. 'A Thousand Yearnings: A Book of Urdu Poetry and Prose" A new edition of Ralph Russell's translations with introduction by Marion Molteno', book launch.
• 2 November 2017: Charles Allen, 'Coromandel: A Personal history of South India', book launch.
• 9 November 2017: Dr Andrew Arsan, 'Beyond Formal and Informal Imperialism: Beirut, Hong Kong, and the Growth of European Power, c.1830-1870'.
• 16 November 2017: Professor David Park, 'Preserving the Buddhist Wall Paintings of Bhutan'.
• 21 November 2107: RAS Collections Evening.
• 23 November 2017: Dr Elaine Wright, 'Lapis and Gold: Exploring Chester Beatty's Ruzbihan Qur'an'.
• 4 December 2017: Mark Condos, 'The Insecurity State', book launch.
• 7 December 2017: Dr Diana Lange, 'Exploring Tibet in the Mid 19th Century: The British Library's Wise Collection'.
• 13 December 2017: David Leffman, 'William Mesny: How a British Adventurer Became a General in Qing-Dynasty China'.
• 11 January 2018: Professor Christopher Fuller, 'European Science and Colonial Anthropology in British India, c.1871-1911'.
• 17 January 2018: "Anglo-Indian and Minority Politics in South Asia" by Uther Charlton-Stevens, 'Refugees and the Politics of the Everyday State in Pakistan Resettlement in Punjab, 1947-1962" by Elisabetta Iob, "Urbanisation, Citizenship and Conflict in India Ahmedabad 1900-2000" by Tommaso Bobbio; book launches with introduction by Professor Francis Robinson.
• 18 January 2017: Dr Mark Condos, 'Anarchists, Revolutionaries, and Franco-British Imperial Policing in French Chandernagore, 1905-1930'.
• 23 January 2018: Dr Alban von Stockhausen, 'Images and (Post)colonial Encounters: A History of the Visual Representation of the Nagas of Northeast India'.
• 8 February 2018: Dr Annabel Gallop, 'The Great Seal of Aceh'.
• 20 February 2018: Amy Matthewson, 'Mr Punch and Chinamania: Blue Willow China and Consumer Consumption in 'Punch' Magazine, 1874-1880'.
• 26 February 2018: Rohan Deb Roy, 'Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820-1909', book launch.
• 6 March 2018: Professor Mercedes Volait, 'The Domestic Collecting of Islamic Artefacts in 19th Century Cairo: The Meymar Objects at the Victoria and Albert Museum'.
• 8 March 2018: Dr Peter Webb, 'Arab Origins: Identity, History and Islam'.
• 15 March 2018: Robert Irwin, 'Ibn Khaldun', book launch.
• 20 March 2018: Dr Zeynep Yürekli-Görkay, 'An Ottoman Sense of Place: Topographical illustration between Europe and Iran'.
• 12 April 2018: Dr Omniya Abdel-Barr, 'K.A.C. Creswell's Photographic Archive at the V&A Museum'.
• 17 April 2018: Professor Francis Robinson, 'Jamal Mian', book launch.
• 19 April 2018: John Falconer, 'A Glorious Galaxy of Monuments: Photography and Archaeology in India in the 19th Century'.
• 26 April 2018: Dr Alex McKay, 'The View from the Palace: The Sikkim Royal Archives'.
• 3 May 2018: Professor Anthony Stockwell, 'Plunder and Restitution: Britain and the Mandalay Regalia'.
• 15 May 2018: Dr Deniz Tuerker, 'The Yildiz Kiosk and the Queen Mothers of the Tanzimat Era: Gender, Landscape and Visibility'.
• 17 May 2018: Dr. Indira Viswanathan Peterson, 'The Royal Asiatic Society's recruitment of elite Indians in its foundational years, making specific reference to the relationship between the RAS's VP Sir Alexander Johnston (1775-1849) and King Serfoji II of Tanjore (r. 1798-1832)'.
• 24 May 2018: Dr Susan Whitfield, 'Silk, Slaves and Stupas: Material Culture of the Silk Road'.
• 29 May 2018: Dr Ashmita Khasnabish, 'Indian Imagination in a Postcolonial Context'.
• 31 May 2018: Nancy Charley, 'Feart', book launch.
• 7 June 2018: Dr. Umberto Bongianino, 'Like Sweet-Smelling Blooms: Arabic Calligraphy in the Islamic West'.
• 14 June 2018, Professor Ornit Shani, 'How India became democratic'.
• 15 June 2018: John de Lucy, 'The Chinese Labour Corps 1917-1920 & their role in the First World War'; and Frances Wood, 'Essential but Unacknowledged: The Contribution of the CLC in WW1', lectures as part of the British Chinese Armed Forces Heritage Exhibition Roadshow at the Royal Asiatic Society, 22 May-18 June 2018.
• 18 June 2018: Professor Robert Dankoff, 'Ottoman Explorations of the Nile', book launch.
• 11 July 2018: Farrukh Husain & Victoria Schofield, 'Afghanistan in the Age of Empires'.

The Agendas, Minutes and Papers for the Library Committee Meetings for 2017.