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Identity area
Reference code
GB 891 RAS JOUR-RAS JOUR/12
Publication status
Published
Level of description
Series
Extent and medium
1 folder +electronic handwritten, typed, computer printed, printed and electronic
Date(s)
- 1901 - ongoing (Creation)
Context area
Name of creator
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
(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.
_Rapson_
_E. J._
_1861-1937_
_Bailey_
_Harold Walter_
_1899-1996_
_Ullendorff_
_Edward_
_1920-2011_
_Phillips_
_Cyril Henry_
_1912-2005_
_Daniyalov_
_G. D_
_Hardy_
_Friedhelm_
_1943-2004_
_Bosworth_
_Clifford Edmund_
_Bagley_
_F. R. C._
_1915-1997_
_Walker_
_Anthony R._
_b 1940_
_anthropologue_
Beckingham, Charles Fraser, 1914-1998
(18/02/1914 – 30/09/1998)
William Edward David Allen
(1901-1973)
Simon Everard Digby
(1932-2010)
Biographical history
Simon Everard Digby was born in India in 1932 and was educated at Stowe School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He travelled in India and Pakistan before returning to England to complete a PhD at the School of Oriental and Africa Studies. He returned to India in 1961-1962 and continued to make trips to India throughout his life. He was Honorary Librarian of the Royal Asiatic Society from 1968-1984. During this time he worked to identify some of these documents. In 1972 he was appointed to a post in the Department of Eastern Art of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. He also taught and examined post-graduate students at SOAS. He died in Delhi in 2010 from pancreatic cancer.
Repository
Royal Asiatic Society Archives
Content and structure area
Scope and content
The majority of administrative correspondence is only kept for its working life. This series contains representative samples of the types of administrative letters and those considered to be of archival value, dating from 1901 to the current day.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Some documents are closed. Please contact the archivist for further details.
Language of material
- English
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