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Here you can find the Royal Asiatic Society’s collection of Akhbars, or court papers/newsletters, documenting the transactions of the court…

The Royal Asiatic Society has a small collection of busts, depicting significant figures in the history of the Society and…

The Society has an important collection of art from East Asia, particularly China and Japan, with many beautiful and fascinating…

The footage dates from the late 1920s/early 1930s and shows excavations in Iraq at the mound of Kouyunjik, scenes in…

The Royal Asiatic Society has almost 100 different collections of photographs, containing several thousand images, dating back to the middle…

The RAS collections include a large number of portraits, depicting Orientalist scholars and significant figures from the historical counter between…

The Society’s collection includes two rare, early versions of Snakes and Ladders, a game which originated in ancient India and…

Here you can see online reproductions of over 400 manuscripts from the Society’s South Asian manuscript collections, many of which…

Thomas Manning was born in Broome, Norfolk on 8th November, 1772, the second son of Reverend William Manning, rector of…

This is a recording of Sir John Gielgud as Thomas Manning, reading from Manning’s Narrative of his travels in Tibet….