Photographs from:

• 24 January 2012: Book launch for Rosane and Ludo Rocher, 'The Making of Western Indology'; and Michael J. Franklin, 'Orientalist Jones', 21 images.
  *18 June 2012: Colin Heywood, Book launch for 'The Rise of the Ottoman Empire', 21 images.

Publicity Posters for 2011-2012. These are all held electronically.

• 13 October 2011: Richard Bowring, 'Bushidō: Yet another invented tradition'.
• 10 November 2011: Briony Llewellyn, 'Painted Embroideries: Interwoven Threads in the Orientalist Images of John Frederick Lewis'.
• 23 November 2011: Dr Fiona Kerlogue, 'Revisiting dance and drama in Bali: interpreting a photo archive for exhibition'.
• 8 December 2011: Dr Randolf G. S. Cooper, 'Afghanistan's Future as Viewed from Hindustan's Military Past'.
• 12 December 2011: Robert Ousterhout, 'Three Intersecting Lives: Archaeologists and Travellers in Ottoman Lands'.
• 12 January 2012: Ming Wilson, 'Dressed to Rule – The Chinese Emperor's Wardrobe'.
• 24 January 2012: Book launch for Rosane and Ludo Rocher, 'The Making of Western Indology'; and Michael J. Franklin, 'Orientalist Jones'.
• 7 February 2012: Dr Monika Bincsik, 'The Japanese Incense Culture and its Lacquer Implements'.
• 16 February 2012: Peng Wenlan, 'The Chinese in Bengal'.
• 8 March 2012: Dr Joya Chatterji, 'An Alternative History of India-Pakistan Relations'.
• 3 May 2012: Lady Julia Boyd, 'A Dance with the Dragon: Peking's foreign community, 1860-1949'.
• 14 June 2012: Dr Rogério Miguel Puga, 'The British Presence in Macao and Representations of the Enclave in British Travel Writing'.
• 18 June 2012: Colin Heywood, Book launch for 'The Rise of the Ottoman Empire'.
• 6 July 2012: Paul French, 'The Haunted Last Days of Old China'.

Publicity Posters for 2010-2011. These are all held electronically.

RAS Lecture Series:

• 7 October 2010: Dr Barbara Brend and Mr Jerry Losty, the Norah M. Titley Memorial Lecture, 'Norah Titley: Tributes and Memories'.
• 14 October 2010: Dr Weipin Tsai, 'Breaking the Ice: the Modern Chinese Postal Service in the Winter Season in the Late Qing period'.
• 11 November 2010: Dr Jennifer Howes, 'Colin Mackenzie's Adventures in India (1784-1821)'.
• 6 January 2011: Dr Caroline Finkel, 'Travelling the Evliya Çelebi Way: Equestrian and Pedestrian Adventures in Northwest Anatolia'.
• 13 January 2011: Dr Andrew Robinson, 'The Apu Trilogy: Satyajit Ray and the Making of an Epic'.
• 10 February 2011: Dr Benedek Péri, 'He has an Excellent Command of Turki since it is the Language of his Forefathers: Turki in Mughal India'.
• 4 April 2011: Nadhra Khan, 'Wall Paintings in a Special Room of the Sikh Prince Kharak Singh's Haveli'.
• 14 April 2011: Mrs Lesley Pullen, 'Naga Material Culture: Mid 19th to Early 21st Century'.
• 9 June 2011: Mr Robert Skelton, 'Some evidence of Material Culture during the Sultanate Period in India'.
• 17 June 2011: Professor Robert Dankoff, 'Explorations of an Ottoman Traveller: The Travels of Evliya Çelebi'.

Student Lecture Series:

• 13 October 2010: Yuthika Sharma, 'Ghulam Ali Khan and the Delhi School of Painters, 1770-1857'.
  *24 November 2011: Alyson Wharton, 'The Balyan Family and the Building Operations in the Tanzimat Period; and James Kimball, 'The Soteriological Role and the rsi Kapila according to the Yuktidipika'.
• 8 December 2010: How Wee Ng presented the film, 'Zheng hun qi shi (The Personals)' directed by Chen Kuo-fu, 1998.
• 26 January 2011: Doreen Muller, 'Narrative, Fiction, Documentary - Images of Conflagrations in the City of Edo'; and Tommaso Bobbio, 'Migrants, Slums and the Construction of Citizenship in Gandhi's Ahmedabad (1915-1930)'.
• 23 February 2011: Taka Oshikiri, 'Gathering for Tea in Meiji Japan'; and Martyn Smith, 'Nation and Nutrition in Japan: Food, Physique and Independence'.
• 16 March 2011: Hyunseok Lee, an art performance entitled, 'Exploring Korean Sacred Architectural Aesthetics and their Spiritual Principles using a 3D Animated Documentary Installation'.
• 20 April 2011: Sushma Jansari, 'Megasthenes and Mauryan-Seleucid Relations: Fact or Fiction?'; and Husam al-Mallak, 'Interpreting Nietzsche's Death of God as the Shift of Ethical Foundations from the Religious to the Secular'.
• 18 May 2011: Farouk Yahya, 'Malay Magic and Divination Manuscripts'.
• 15 June 2011: Film, 'Shugendō Now' by Jean-Marc Abela and Mark Patrick McGuire.

A Special General Meeting was held on 15 April 2010 to consider amendments to the current Byelaws of the Society. The associated material is:

• Notice of the Special General Meeting with Note from the President concerning the Bye Laws and Standing Orders, dated 1 March 2010.
• Signatures of Fellows attending the Special General Meeting.
• Minutes from the meeting.

Information regarding conferences and study events held from 2007-2010. These are:

2007
17-18 May: The International Seminar, 'Britain and the Malay World' , organised by the Royal Asiatic Society in collaboration with the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society.

• Programme including abstracts for papers presented, spiral bound book, with 3 additional pages inserted regarding accommodation and Malaysian restaurants in London.
• Sample invitation for the reception to celebrate the symposium held in honour of the 50th anniversary of Malaysia's independence.
• Correspondence concerning the administration of the seminar, 10 pieces, dated 12 December 2006-11 September 2007.

27 July: A Workshop on ' Historiography, pedagogy and future histories of 1857', held at the Royal Asiatic Society with funding by the Society, the British Academy and the University of Edinburgh's 'Mutiny at the Margins' research project.

• Programme for the event with list of speakers and papers presented, 2 versions, 3 pieces.

2008
4 October: Study Day, 'A Journey through Kazakhstan', in association with The British Museum, the Royal Asiatic Society and the British-Kazakh Society, held at the BP Lecture Theatre, British Museum.

• Programmes for the study day, 4 versions of differing detail, the most detailed containing full abstracts for the papers, 21 pieces.
• Correspondence of congratulations on the success of the day, 1 piece, undated.
• CD-ROM produced by the British-Kazakh Society of the Kazakh Study Day.

Information regarding conferences and study events held from 2005-2006. These are:

2005
18 March: 'The Uighurs: 1500 years of cultural diversity and development', a study day organised by the Royal Asiatic Society and held at Goodenough College, Mecklenburgh Square, London.

• 'Proposal: Royal Academy and Royal Asiatic Society Joint Study day - The Uyghers' - a proposal prepared for the Council Meeting of 14 October 2004.
• Publicity leaflet for the event, 2 pieces.

2006
8 July: 'The Piprahwa Excavation: Fraud, Hoax or Buddhist Archaeology's Greatest Discovery?', held at the Harewood Courtyard Conference Centre, Harewood House, under the auspices of the Royal Asiatic Society.

• 'Piprawha Stupa Proposal' - a proposal prepared by Charles Allen for the Council Meeting of 14 October 2004.
• Introduction to, and programme of, the conference, 2 pieces.
• Correspondence concerning the administration of the event, 3 pieces, dated 15-21 March 2006.

Special General Meetings were held in 2004 and 2005 concerning the Society moving premises from 60 Queen's Gardens. The material is:

Special General Meeting 13 May 2004

• Notice of the Special General Meeting with Note from the President regarding the decision to sell Queen's Gardens and purchase 20/21 Jockey Fields, dated 21 April 2004.
• Agenda for the Meeting. Amendment to the proposal for the Meeting to allow the Council to purchase a property within a certain location at their discretion, dated 13 May 2004.
• Signatures of those present at the meeting and lists of apologies.

• Correspondence from Fellows concerning the meeting, 5 letters, dated 26 - 30 April 2004.

  Special General Meeting 12 May 2005

• Notice of the Special General Meeting for the purpose of approving the sale of 60 Queen's Gardens and the purchase of 14 Stephenson Way.
• Honorary Treasurer's Statement for the Special General Meeting.
• Letter from the President to Fellows concerning the sale and purchase of the properties, dated 20 April 2005.

Signed Minutes for the Meetings of the Events and House Committee from September 2003 to September 2010. With the Minutes are Agendas and some associated reports about items discussed at the meetings.

Information regarding conferences and study events held from 2002-2004. These are: 2002
16-17 November: Farid Al-din 'Attar and the Persian Sufi Tradition Conference, held at the Brunei Gallery Auditorium, SOAS, organised by the Iran heritage Foundation, the centre for near and Middle Eastern Studies and the Institute of Ismaili Studies, with sponsorship from the British Academy, the British Council and the Royal Asiatic Society.

• Correspondence regarding the grant for the conference, 11 pieces, dated 18 March - 19 September 2002.

29 November: South Asia Archive and Library Group 68th Conference, held in the Royal Asiatic Society Library.

• Programme of events with list of speakers and the papers they presented, 1 piece.

2003
30 April: Photographs from the Royal Asiatic Collections held at the Royal Asiatic Society.

• Programme of events with list of speakers and the papers they presented, 1 piece.

2003-2004 Medieval Iraq Study Day to be held at the BP Lecture Theatre, British Museum, in association with the Royal Asiatic Society.

• Two drafts for the programme of a Medieval Iraq study day, dated 15 May 2003 and 7 February 2004, 3 pieces.
• Colour photographs from the event, 7 pieces, dated May 2004.
• 'Report to the Council: Medieval Iraq Study Day at the British Museum' - report prepared by Judith Kolbas, Honorary Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, with accompanying letter from Nicholas Badcott, Arab World Education Officer, British Museum, for the Council meeting of 10 June 2004.

2004
10 September: Charles Boxer Centenary Conference. This conference was held at King's College, London, followed by a reception at the Royal Asiatic Society.

• Letter from Paula Ridley, Director, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, to Alison Ohta, Curator, Royal Asiatic Society, to inform that the Foundation have offered a grant to the Society to help with costs of the conference. Typed, 2 pieces, dated 8 July 2004.
• Letters from Catherine Melia, Executive Officer, Royal Asiatic Society, to Jeff Johnson, Redwing Coaches, concerning the hire of a coach to transport people from King's College to the Society. Typed, 2 pieces, dated 6 August and 6 September 2004.
• Estimate of costs and programme for the reception at the Society. Typed, undated.

Material from events between 2001 and 2010:

2001
26 November: The Society for South Asian Studies Annual General Meeting, held at the premises of the Royal Asiatic Society.

• Invitation poster for the event, 1 piece. Agenda for the AGM, 1 piece.
• Administrative correspondence, 4 pieces, dated 12 July - 13 December 2001.

2004
22 April: Potential visit by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Association.

• Letter from Mayella Figgis, Foreign and Commonwealth Office Association, to Alison Ohta, Curator, Royal Asiatic Society, to confirm that after their Charman, Roger Westbrook's visit to the Society, the Association would be keen to arrange a group visit. This has been annotated with 'Nov 2004' suggesting the visit took place in November of that year. Typed, 1 piece, dated 22 April 2004.

17 November: Visit of the Nichi-ei Otomodachi Kai Arts & Antiques Group to the Royal Asiatic Society.

• Letter from Judith A. Colegate to Alison Ohta, Curator, Royal Asiatic Society to confirm the group's visit and to finalise the arrangements. Typed,1 piece, dated 3 August 2004.

2005
22 February: Visit of the Kensington and Chelsea National Trust Association.

• Letter confirming the date of the Trust's visit to the Society, 1 piece, dated 2 November 2004.

2006
27 July and 5 October: Receptions to celebrate the opening of the new premises of the Society at 14 Stephenson Way.

• Invitation card with reply form, printed card, 2 pieces.
• Letter from the President, Anthony Stockwell, to the Fellows informing of the event, 1 piece, dated 12 July 2006.
• List of attendees to the reception on 27 July, 6 pieces.

Undated: Celebration of the 80th birthday of Professor A.D.H. Bivar hosted by The Circle of Inner Asian Art and Brepols Academic Publishers, held at the Royal Asiatic Society's premises.

• Invitation card, printed card, 1 piece.

2007
2 July: Concert of Kazakh Music held at the Royal Asiatic Society's premises.

• Programme for the event, 1 piece.

13 August: School Visit to the Royal Asiatic Society.

• 44 digital images.

2008
21 February: Concert of Kazakh Classical Music held at the Royal Asiatic Society's premises.

• Admission ticket, 1 piece.

15 May: Concert of Chinese, Japanese and Mongolian Folk Melodies held at the Royal Asiatic Society's premises.

• Admission ticket, 1 piece.
• Programme for the event, 1 piece.

2009
30 April: Celebration of the completion of the conservation of two Persian manuscripts made possible by a grant from the Don Baker Memorial Fund.

• Invitation card, 1 piece.

12 June: 'A Composer on the Throne: the Music of Sultan Selim III and his Court', a talk and concert held at the Royal Asiatic Society.

• Concert programme, pamphlet.

2010
18 September: The Royal Asiatic Society opened as part of Open House.

• Letter from Jeni Hoskin, Project Manager, Open City, to Alison Ohta, Curator, Royal Asiatic Society, to confirm the Society's participation in Open House London 2010. With the letter are the Final Fact Check List, Publicity Material and Insurance information. Typed and printed, 4 pieces, dated 3 June 2010.
• Handout sheets for artworks hanging in the Society's premises, 4 electronic documents.
• 'Open House London, Archifacts' sheet, 1 piece.
• 'Royal Asiatic Society Open House Statistics – Saturday 18th September 2010', electronic document.
• Report on Open house of 18th of September 2010, 2 versions, 3 pieces.