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GB 891 RAS BP-RAS BP/4
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- 2021 (Creation)
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(1823-)
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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 of subjects connected with and for the encouragement of science, literature and the arts in relation to Asia'. It continues as a forum for those who are interested in the languages, cultures and history of Asia to meet and exchange ideas.
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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_.
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A recording of Mallika Leuzinger's lecture to the Society on the subject of her dissertation can be found on the Royal Asiatic Society's Youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9kIuwe8CdI
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