GB 891 RAS MEMB-RAS MEMB/3-RAS MEMB/3/2-RAS MEMB/3/3/4

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• 1978-2004 (Creation)

Royal Asiatic Society Archives

Correspondence between the Society and its Honorary Members dating from the mid-1970s to early 2000s. These are mostly letters concerning suggestions for candidates, proposals for Council and membership invitation, with replies from the members. __Elected 1975__ Professor Nikolai Aleksandrovich Baskakov __Elected 1978__ Professor Paul Balog Professor Joshua Blau Professor Claude Cahen Professor Kazuo Enoki Professor Inalcik Halil Professor Tadeusz Lewicki Professor Hajime Nakamura Professor H. K. Sherwani Professor D. E. Hettiaratchi __Elected 1984__ Professor Sukumar Sen __Elected 1985__ Mr Hirad C. Chaudhuri Professor Juan Vernet Gines Professor M. C. Subhadradis Diskul Professor B. N. Mukherjee Academician M. I. Useinov __Elected 1991__ Dr Ivan Hrbek Professor Erik Zurcher Professor Tatsuro Yamamoto Professor Walther Heissig Professor Jonas C. Greenfield Professor A. K. Narain Professor Ahmad Hasan Dani Dr Firoze M. Kotwal Professor A. A. Duri Professor David Ayalon Professor Jane Aubin Mrs Eveline Poree-Maspero (already passed away at the time of invitation) Elizabeth Samson __Elected 1993__ Professor Dieter Schlingloff Dr Parmeshwari Lal Gupta Professor Paul Thieme The Reverend Professor Michele Piccirillo __Elected 1998__ Mr Hugh Bett (Fellow honoris causa) Dr Robert Jones (Fellow honoris causa) Other correspondence: * Letter from A. D. H. Bivar informing the Society of the death of Professor Emile Benveniste (elected 1946), dated March 1977 * Letters from Mr J Nagar nominating M. M. Nagar, former Director of State Museum and Archaeology in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, as a Honorary Fellow, with details of his qualifications, and reply from the Society, dated April 1977 * Letter from Jean Naudou, Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Civilisation at University of Lille III, informing the Society of the death of Professor Philippe Stern (elected 1948), dated May 1979 * Letter from Denis Sinor, Distinguished Professor of Uralic-Altaic Studies at Indiana University, informing the Society of the death of Professor W. Norman Brown (elected 1952), Deny and S. Elisseef (elected 1955), dated January 1980 * Letter from S. K. Punjya from University of Warwick recommending Juan Mascaro, a Sanskrit scholar, as an Honorary Fellow, with a memorandum from Professor J. C. Wright from SOAS giving his opinion on Juan Mascaro, 1985-1986 * Documents relating to proposal for Honorary Fellows 1994, including a letter from Dr G. S. P. Freeman-Grenville, proposing architect Isam Awwad (also a RAS member), with a relevant news clipping; and a CV of Professor Gregory Bongard-Levin. With a note saying ‘not yet considered’ * Letter from A. D. H. Bivar relaying a request from Professor A. H. Dani for possible consideration of Professor Mohammad Salim as an Honorary Member, with details of qualifications, dated January 2004

The letters relating to elected members are arranged by the year of election of the member.