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The papers contain administrative and research materials relating to Hindu temples and priests, compiled or collected by Christopher Fuller during his research trips to Madurai and more widely in Tamil Nadu from the 1970s to the 1990s. There is also a small amount of published articles relating to the same.

The papers of Ulla Johansen contain a scanned typescript of her habilitation thesis entitled Die Schamanentrache bei den Tuvanern. Vorschläge zur Methodik der Schamanismusforschung written in 1968. The work is described as a study of shaman costume in Tuva and the wider region in Siberia and Mongolia. The typescript is stored on a CD but a digital copy has been made.

Stored with the CD is a printed email from Peter A. Andrews to Alison Ohta, RAS Director, explaining the context and the scanning of the work and donating it to the Society for preservation and use by researchers, dated 6 July 2024.

The papers of Christopher Gimson contain correspondence between him, the Society and Professor Eugénie Henderson from SOAS. These document Gimson's interest in and efforts towards encouraging the study of the history of Manipur.

Manuscript described as 'notes on Cudapah' (Kadapa), annotated 'Read July 17/30' and "Ordered not to be printed Nov 13/30. The accompanying label refers this to 'Catalogue of English MSS. II No 5, Cuddapah. Presented by Mrs Skinner.'

The manuscript includes notes in three sections, concerning:

• The self-devotion of a headman of the village of Chitwail
• An account of the "Assaree Shereef" - a building erected in 1735 to contain a hair from the beard of Muhammad
• The behaviour of a fakeer (holy man)

A description of the manuscript can be found in the Society's "Catalogue of English Manuscripts in the R.A.S.", p. 20.

"Journal of a Mission to the Government of some of the Lower Provinces of Siam". A handwritten unbound manuscript of 94 sides describing James Low's Mission to the Rajah of Ligor in 1824. The manuscript is dated 1824 but there is a postscript explaining the main purpose of the mission, dated 1 January 1846. The manuscript bears many alterations and annotations. These Papers are not the same as the article, "Extracts from the Journal of a Political Mission to the Raja of Ligor in Siam. By Capt. James Low, M. N. I. and M. A. T. C.", published in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, July 1838.

With the manuscript are photocopies of printed articles. These are:

• Report on Lieutenant Low's Public Mission to His Highness the Rajah of Ligor, pp.1-11, unknown source.
• Journal of a Public Mission to the Rajah of Ligor, pp.12-21, incomplete, unknown source.