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1 archival folder + digital photographs

• 2017 - present (Creation)

Royal Asiatic Society Archives

These form part of the institutional records of the Royal Asiatic Society.

As part of the institutional records, they have always been part of the Society's possessions.

The Bayly Prize was established by friends and colleagues to mark the outstanding contribution of Professor Sir Christopher Bayly FBA to the study of world history and that of Asia in particular. It is an £2500 award for a distinguished thesis in an Asian subject falling within the scope of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society or of Modern Asian Studies. The thesis must have been examined and approved for the PhD degree at a British University in the year preceding entry to the competition. It was first awarded in 2018 and has been awarded annually since. The winners have been: * 2018 - Johannes Lotze (University of Manchester) for the thesis, _Translation of Empire: Mongol Legacy, Language Policy, and the Early Ming World Order, 1368-1453_. * 2019 - Lexi (Alexandra) Stadlen (London School of Economics) for the thesis, _Weaving lives from Violence: Possibility and Change for Muslim Women in West Bengal_. * 2020 - Liana Chase (School of Oriental and African Studies) for the thesis, _Healing ‘Heart-Minds’: Disaster, Care, and Global Mental Health in Nepal’s Himalayan Foothills_. * 2021 - Mallika Leuzinger (University College, London) for the thesis, _Dwelling in Photography: Intimacy, Amateurism and the Camera in South Asia_. * 2022 - Sonia Wigh (University of Exeter) for the thesis, _The Body of Words: A social history of sex and the body in early modern South Asia_. * 2023 - Thomas Barrett (University of Oxford) for the thesis, _Foreigners and the Making of the Chinese Diplomat_. There are administrative documents, invitations, publicity and photographs from the award events.

Material may be closed for confidentiality reasons. Please contact the archivist for further information. Details can be found here : https://royalasiaticarchives.org/index.php/. The archive is open on Tuesdays and Fridays 10-5, and Thursdays 2-5. Access is to any researcher without appointment but it will help if an appointment is made via phone or email. Please bring photo ID.

Digital photography (without flash) for research purposes may be permitted upon completion of a copyright declaration form, and with respect to current UK copyright law.

The website of the Society provides details of the Bayly Prize Winners and short-listed candidates, and conditions of entry at https://royalasiaticsociety.org/the-bayly-prize-appeal/bayly-prize-winners/ and https://royalasiaticsociety.org/the-bayly-prize-applications-and-nominations/.

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