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Signed Minutes for the Meetings of the Events and House Committee from 2021 to present, with allied agendas and some appendices and correspondence. These cover the following meetings:

2021
14 January 2021
6 May 2021
23 September 2021

2022
13 January 2022
5 May 2022
4 October 2022

2023
12 January 2023
4 May 2023 (wanting)
26 October 2023

2024
11 January 2024
21 March 2024
2 May 2024
26 September 2024

2025
9 January 2025
27 March 2025
1 May 2025
25 September 2025

The Agendas, Minutes and Papers for the Library Committee Meetings for 2020, covering the following meetings:

• 16 January 2020
• 23 April 2020
• 1 October 2020

In 2020 the Society was unable to hold an award ceremony due to the covid-19 pandemic. The judges reported a strong field of submission with three dissertations being of outstanding merit:

Liana Chase (School of Oriental and African Studies), Healing ‘Heart-Minds’: Disaster, Care, and Global Mental Health in Nepal’s Himalayan Foothills.
Hannah Theaker (University of Oxford), Moving Muslims: The Great Northwestern Rebellion and the Transformation of Chinese Islam, 1860-1896.
Hedwig Waters (University College, London), ‘Living from loan to loan’: Tracing networks of gifts, debt and trade in the Mongolian borderlands.

The Prize was awarded to Dr Liana Chase. At present there is no archival material associated with the 2020 award.

Publicity posters for Lectures and Book Launches from 2019-2020. These are mixed electronic and physical documents. The lecture series was foreshortened by the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.

• 26 September 2019: Dr Stefan Halikowski-Smith, 'Two Missionary Accounts of Southeast Asia in the Late Seventeenth Century'.
• 10 October 2019: Dr Bo Gao, 'China-North Korea Economic Cooperation'. (Physical document.)
• 17 October 2019: Professor Stephen Martin, 'Flute Lecture Concert: Surviving Asia, Sponsoring Mozart, The Polymathic Portrait of Dr Ferdinand Dejean'.
• 22 October 2019: Dr Philip Mansel, 'The Sun King and the Sultan: Louis XIV and the Ottoman Empire'.
• 6 November 2019: Paul Bromberg, 'Thai Silver and Nielloware'.
• 11 November 2019: 2019 Annual Rustaveli Day, Nino Strachey, 'Princess Tamara Imeretinsky' and Alec and Katya D'Janoeff, 'Michael Aramyants'.
• 12 November 2019: Dr Giles Tillotson, 'Vision and Landscape: New Perspectives on Oriental Scenery by Thomas and William Daniell'.
• 14 November 2019: Professor Michael Franklin, 'Phebe Gibbes, Our Calcutta Correspondent'.
• 19 November 2019: Dr Tilman Frasch, 'Bagan and the Theravada Buddhist Ecumene in the 12-13 Centuries CE'.
• 20 November 2019: Lord Stephen Green, 'The Human Odyssey - East, West and the Search for Universal Values'.
• 10 December 2019: Dr George Mak, 'The Mandarin Union Version after One Hundred Years: A Reflection on the History and Impact of a Classic Chinese Biblical Translation'.
• 12 December 2019: Dr Peter Coles, 'Silk, Syrup and Shade: 4000 Years of Mulberry Migration', book launch.
• 16 January 2020: Professor Henrietta Harrison, 'George Thomas Staunton and the Perils of being a China Expert in Early Nineteenth-Century London'.
• 21 January 2020: Dr Ed Pulford, 'Time and History across China's Northeastern Borders'.
• 25 February 2020: Annabel Teh Gallop, 'Malay Seais from the Islamic World of Southeast Asia'.
• 12 March 2020: Christopher de Bellaigue, 'The Islamic Enlightenment'.

The lecture series was foreshortened by the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. Photographs from:

• 10 October 2019: Dr Bo Gao, 'China-North Korea Economic Cooperation', 6 images.
• 17 October 2019: Professor Stephen Martin, 'Flute Lecture Concert: Surviving Asia, Sponsoring Mozart, The Polymathic Portrait of Dr Ferdinand Dejean', 5 images.
• 22 October 2019: Dr Philip Mansel, 'The Sun King and the Sultan: Louis XIV and the Ottoman Empire', 3 images.
• 22 October 2019: Paul Bromberg, 'Thai Silver and Nielloware', 5 images.
• 14 November 2019: Professor Michael Franklin, 'Phebe Gibbes, Our Calcutta Correspondent', 4 images.
• 20 November 2019: Lord Stephen Green, 'The Human Odyssey - East, West and the Search for Universal Values', 4 images.
• 10 December 2019: Dr George Mak, 'The Mandarin Union Version after One Hundred Years: A Reflection on the History and Impact of a Classic Chinese Biblical Translation', 4 images.
• 12 December 2019: Dr Peter Coles, 'Silk, Syrup and Shade: 4000 Years of Mulberry Migration', book launch, 3 images.
• 17 December 2019: Alan Tritton, 'Scotland and the Indian Empire, book launch, 5 images.
• 16 January 2020: Professor Henrietta Harrison, 'George Thomas Staunton and the Perils of being a China Expert in Early Nineteenth-Century London', 2 images.
• 13 February 2020: Dr Simon O'Meara, 'The Ka'ba of Mecca as axis and matrix mundi', 4 images.
• 18 February 2020: Dr Fiona Kerlogue, ''Travelling and Collecting in the Dutch East Indies in the 1930s: the collections of Růžena Charlota Urbanová in the National Musuem, Prague', 4 images.
• 12 March 2020: Christopher de Bellaigue, 'The Islamic Enlightenment', 5 images.

The Agendas, Minutes and Papers for the Library Committee Meetings for 2019, covering the following meetings:

• 10 January 2019
• 25 April 2019
• 26 September 2019

In 2019 the winner was Lexi (Alexandra) Stadlen (London School of Economics) for her thesis, Weaving lives from Violence: Possibility and Change for Muslim Women in West Bengal.

The shortlisted candidates were Radha Kapuria (Kings College, London) for Music in Colonial Punjab: A Social History; Ahmad Moradi (University of Manchester) for Politics of Persuasion: Making and Unmaking Revolution in Iran; and Sahil Nijhawan (University College London) for Human-animal relations and the role of cultural norms in tiger conservation in the Idu Mishmi of Arunachal Pradesh, India.

The Society received 26 submissions from 11 universities in the United Kingdom. These were considered by the panel of adjudicators consisting of Doctor Taylor Sherman (LSE), Professor Sunil Amrith (Harvard), Professor James Laidlaw (Cambridge), Professor Rebecca Empson (UCL) and Professor Naoko Shimizu (Yale-NUS). The prize was awarded at a reception at the Society on Tuesday 29th October 2019, with the winner announced by Lyndal Roper, Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford.

The archival material is:

• 'The Bayly Prize 2019 Shortlist' - document giving biographical details of the shortlisted candidates and their theses. Computer printed, 3 pieces.
• Four digital photographs showing Professor Lyndal Roper, adjudicator Taylor Sherman, the shortlisted candidates and officers of the Society.

Copy of the Society's Standing Orders dated to January 2019.

Publicity posters for Lectures and Book Launches from 2018-2019. These are mixed physical and electronic documents.

• 12 September 2018: Captain Jay Singh-Sohal, presentation of the film, 'Saragarhi: The True Story'.
• 18 September 2018: Dr Rose Kerr, 'Arrow Vase: From Ritual to Game'.
• 20 September 2018: Dr Gulfishan Khan, 'The Indo-Persian elite and the Formation of Orientalist Tradition'.
• 4 October 2018: Dr Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, 'My Dear Schonberg: Letters from Sir Aurel Stein'.
• 11 October 2018: Dr Mehreen Chida-Razvi, 'The Mughal Madonna: Representations of the Virgin in Jahangiri-era Architecture'.
• 23 October 2018: Peter Hibbard, 'More than a Stuffed Bird Show: The RAS Legacy in Shanghai'.
• 25 October 2018: Professor Anna Contadini, 'The Pisa Griffin and the Mari-Cha Lion: Metalwork, Art, and Technology in the Medieval Islamicate Mediterranean'.
• 2 November 2018: Dr George Michell and Dr Helen Philon, 'Islamic Architecture of Deccan India', book launch.
• 6 November 2018: the Georgian Embassy, 'Unlocking the Door,' an evening of Georgian literature.
• 7 November 2018: Omar Khan, 'Paper Jewels: Postcards from the Raj', book launch. (Physical document.)
• 8 November 2018: Dr Christoph Baumer, 'Central Asia in the 21st Century, lecture hosted by the Royal Society for Asian Affairs, Royal Asiatic Society, IB Tauris and the Centre for Contemporary Asia, and SOAS, held at Brunei gallery Lecture Theatre.
• 15 November 2018: Moin Mir with Dr Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, 'The Prince who Beat the Empire', book launch.
• 20 November 2019: Dr Jacob Ghazarian, 'The Ancient Silk Road: Its enduring impact on China and renewed objectives'.
• 11 December 2018: Professor Ian Gow, 'The Scottish Sinologist Alexander Wylie (1815-1887): Missionary, Man of Letters, Mathematician'.
• 13 December 2018: Dr Alexandra Green, 'Sir Stamford Raffles: Civilised Views of Java'.
• 10 January 2019: Dr Cailah Jackson, 'The Arts of the Book in a Time of Conflict: Manuscripts of Late Medieval Konya'.
• 7 February 2019: Dr John Clarke, 'Collecting Tibet at the South Kensington Museum: the legacy of the 1904 expedition and beyond'.
• 19 February 2019: Dr Oliver Crawford, 'The Languages of Indonesian Socialism'.
• 26 February 2019: Deborah Freeman Fahid, 'The Ager Rock Crystal Chessmen: Some Early Medieval Imports from the Iranian World?'.
• 7 March 2019: Dr Jharna Gourlay, 'Forceps, Stethoscopes and Sisterhood: British Female Doctors in 19th Century India'.
• 14 March 2019: Dr Yossef Rapoport, 'Lost Maps of the Caliphs: Drawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo'.
• 19 March 2019: Ursula Sims-Williams, 'Tipu Sultan's Library: Building a Collection'.
• 11 April 2019: Dr Rayna Denison, 'The Hidden History of Studio Ghibli: Short Films, Advertising and the Industrial Reality of Japanese Animation'.
• 23 April 2019: Dr Talat Ahmed in conversation with Professor David Arnold. 'Mohandas Gandhi: Experiments in Civil Disobedience', book launch.
• 25 April 2019: Dr Simon Wolfgang Fuchs, 'When Tehran was the Brightest Star: A Global History of the 1979 Iranian Revolution'.
• 2 May 2019: Philip Davies, 'Lost Warriors - Seagrim and Pagani of Burma - The Last Great Untold Story of WWII'.
• 9 May 2019: Jonathan Phillips, '"Saladin we have returned!": The Myriad Memories of the Crusades in the Near East during the Modern Era'.
• 13 May 2019: Nawal Nasrallah, 'Treasure Trove of Benefits and Variety at the Table: A Fourteenth-Century Egyptian Cookbook', special ticketed event.
• 21 May 2019: Cheryl Porter, 'Painting Manuscripts with Metal and Insects: Grind or flatten, catch and cook'.
• 6 June 2019: Edward Weech, 'Systems of Religion and Morality in the Collections of the Royal Asiatic Society'.
• 18 June 2019: Susan Stronge, 'The Lapidary Arts of the Mughal Empire in the 17th and 18th centuries'.
• 27 June 2019: Dr Ravinder Reddy, 'Numinous Imagery on Arms and Armour of the Indian Subcontinent'.
• 28 June 2019: Chanchal B. Dadlani, 'From Stone to Paper: Architecture as History in the Late Mughal Empire'; and Ünver Rüstem, 'Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul', in conversation with Dr Sussan Babaie, book launch.
• 30 July 2019: Dr Sarah Tiffin, 'Raffles and the Course of Empire: Decoding Ruin Imagery in the History of Java'.

Photographs from:

• 18 September 2018: Dr Rose Kerr, 'Arrow Vase: From Ritual to Game', 6 images.
• 20 September 2018: Dr Gulfishan Khan, 'The Indo-Persian elite and the Formation of Orientalist Tradition', 5 images.
• 4 October 2018: Dr Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, 'My Dear Schonberg: Letters from Sir Aurel Stein', 5 images.
• 11 October 2018: Dr Mehreen Chida-Razvi, 'The Mughal Madonna: Representations of the Virgin in Jahangiri-era Architecture', 2 images.
• 25 October 2018: Professor Anna Contadini, 'The Pisa Griffin and the Mari-Cha Lion: Metalwork, Art, and Technology in the Medieval Islamicate Mediterranean', 23 images.
• 2 November 2018: Dr George Michell and Dr Helen Philon, 'Islamic Architecture of Deccan India', book launch, 7 images.
• 6 November 2018: Professor Donald Rayfield, Dr. Gillian Evison and Ms. Lia Chokoshvili, 'Unlocking the Door: Writing from Georgia', 16 images.
• 7 November 2018: Omar Khan, 'Paper Jewels: Postcards from the Raj', book launch, 6 images.
• 15 November 2018: Moin Mir with Dr Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, 'The Prince who Beat the Empire', book launch, 6 images.
• 20 November 2019: Dr Jacob Ghazarian, 'The Ancient Silk Road: Its enduring impact on China and renewed objectives', 5 images.
• 11 December 2018: Professor Ian Gow, 'The Scottish Sinologist Alexander Wylie (1815-1887): Missionary, Man of Letters, Mathematician', 5 images.
• 10 January 2019: Dr Cailah Jackson, 'The Arts of the Book in a Time of Conflict: Manuscripts of Late Medieval Konya', 6 images.
• 7 February 2019: Dr John Clarke, 'Collecting Tibet at the South Kensington Museum: the legacy of the 1904 expedition and beyond', 4 images.
• 19 February 2019: Dr Oliver Crawford, 'The Languages of Indonesian Socialism', 5 images.
• 26 February 2019: Deborah Freeman Fahid, 'The Ager Rock Crystal Chessmen: Some Early Medieval Imports from the Iranian World?', 3 images.
• 7 March 2019: Dr Jharna Gourlay, 'Forceps, Stethoscopes and Sisterhood: British Female Doctors in 19th Century India', 3 images.
• 14 March 2019: Dr Yossef Rapoport, 'Lost Maps of the Caliphs: Drawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo', 3 images.
• 19 March 2019: Ursula Sims-Williams, 'Tipu Sultan's Library: Building a Collection', 4 images.
• 11 April 2019: Dr Rayna Denison, 'The Hidden History of Studio Ghibli: Short Films, Advertising and the Industrial Reality of Japanese Animation', 2 images.
• 23 April 2019: Dr Talat Ahmed in conversation with Professor David Arnold. 'Mohandas Gandhi: Experiments in Civil Disobedience', book launch, 2 images.
• 25 April 2019: Dr Simon Wolfgang Fuchs, 'When Tehran was the Brightest Star: A Global History of the 1979 Iranian Revolution', 3 images.
• 2 May 2019: Philip Davies, 'Lost Warriors - Seagrim and Pagani of Burma - The Last Great Untold Story of WWII', 3 images.
• 9 May 2019: Professor Jonathan Phillips, ''Saladin, we have returned!': The Myriad Memories of the Crusades in the Near East during the Modern Era', 11 images.
• 13 May 2019: Nawal Nasrallah, 'Treasure Trove of Benefits and Variety at the Table: A Fourteenth-Century Egyptian Cookbook', book launch, 9 images.
• 21 May 2019: Cheryl Porter, 'Painting Manuscripts with Metal and Insects: Grind or flatten, catch and cook', 8 images.
• 29 May 2019: Dominic Faulder, 'Anand Panyarachun and the Making of Modern Thailand', book launch, 6 images.
• 6 June 2019: Edward Weech, 'Systems of Religion and Morality in the Collections of the Royal Asiatic Society', 3 images.
• 18 June 2019: Susan Stronge, 'The Lapidary Arts of the Mughal Empire in the 17th and 18th centuries', 5 images.
• 27 June 2019: Dr Ravinder Reddy, 'Numinous Imagery on Arms and Armour of the Indian Subcontinent', 4 images.
• 30 July 2019: Dr Sarah Tiffin, 'Raffles and the Course of Empire: Decoding Ruin Imagery in the History of Java' 5 images.