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GB 891 RAS BP-RAS BP/5
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Digital photographs
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- 2022-2023 (Creation)
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(1823-)
Biographical history
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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Royal Asiatic Society Archives
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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.
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