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	Royal Asiatic Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was intended to be the British counterpart to the Asiatic Society of Calcutta, which had been founded in 1784, by the noted Sanskrit scholar and jurist Sir William Jones.
		Due to the nature of the Society's close connection with the British Empire in the east, much of the work originating with the society has been focused on topics concerning the Indian subcontinent.
		Currently, the President of the Society is Professor F.C.R. Robinson, the Patron is His Royal Highness The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, and the editor of the Journal is Dr. Sarah Ansari, Royal Holloway.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Asiatic_Society (651 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Asiatic Society of Bombay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Asiatic Society of Bombay is a public state library in the city of Mumbai, India.
		It was established in 1803 as "The Royal Asiatic Society, Bombay Branch." The society, founded by Sir James Mackintosh was known as the Literary Society of Bombay, and first met on November 26, 1830.
		It was given to the Society by Mountstuart Elphinstone, governor of Bombay and President of the Society from 1819-1827 and bears his signature.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Asiatic_Society_of_Bombay (532 words)

	Asiatic Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This article is about the society in Calcutta.
		The Asiatic Society was founded by Sir William Jones (1746-1794) on 15 January 1784 in Calcutta, the capital of British India, to enhance and further the cause of Oriental research.
		It was formerly known as "The Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal."
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Asiatic_Society (90 words)

	(37) Asiatic Researches group of people.
		In 1784 the “Asiatic Society of Bengal” (Calcutta) was founded by Sir William Jones under the patronage of Warren Hastings.
		The Society was formed with thirty Europeans assembled on the invitation of Sir William Jones.
		Behind all those amazingly voluminous activities of the Asiatic Society there was a hidden aim of the English people which was expressed by Jones himself in the writings of his first essay of 1784.
	encyclopediaofauthentichinduism.org /articles/37_asiatic_research.htm (1110 words)

	R A S — Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
		ABOUT US The Royal Asiatic Society was founded in 1823 by the eminent Sanskrit scholar Henry Colebrooke and a group of likeminded individuals.
		The Society is affiliated to associate societies in India (Calcutta, Bombay, Bangalore, Madras, and Bihar), Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea and Malaysia.
		The Society provides a forum for those who are interested in the history, languages, cultures and religions of Asia to meet and exchange ideas.
	www.royalasiaticsociety.org /about.html (381 words)

	eZ Systems -
		The Presbyterian missionary August Reischauer spent twenty-six years as a member of the Asiatic Society; his son Edwin became American Ambassador to Japan in the early 1960s and was elected to the Council of the Society (the Reischauer Institute at Harvard is named after Edwin).
		The Society is a place where all persons with an intellectual curiosity about Japan and its Asian neighbors are welcome to join and become active, especially individuals who will be in Tokyo and thus able to attend the monthly meetings.
		Scholars who will be in Tokyo and would like to address the Society are invited to contact the Society in Tokyo with their proposal (several months in advance, please), and scholars wishing to order the Transactions or be published there are invited to contact the Editor in Tokyo.
	www.asjapan.org /About/history.htm (704 words)

	BANGLAPEDIA:
		The idea of compiling a comprehensive encyclopedia of Bangladesh came under discussion in the Research and Seminar Committee of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh in the early 1990s, while the collective three-volume study, History of Bangladesh 1704-1971, (1991), a project of the Society, was in progress.
		By undertaking the project and implementing it steadfastly, the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh has definitely demonstrated path-breaking leadership in the organisation and cultivation of knowledge in the country.
		The Asiatic Society and the project personnel are all thus especially grateful to him.
	banglapedia.search.com.bd /Preface.htm (3515 words)

	Resources of Scholarly Societies - Area Studies & Time-Period Studies
		This is one of a set of subject pages in the Scholarly Societies Project, which facilitates access to websites of scholarly societies across the world.
		Society for Armenian Studies ["The aims of the Society for Armenian Studies are to promote the study of Armenian culture and society, including history, language, literature, and social, political, and economic questions..."]
		Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East
	www.lib.uwaterloo.ca /society/areatimestudies_soc.html (906 words)

	Asiatic Society Library, mumbai, Mumbai Stock Exchange, tour to mumbai, travel package mumbai.
		As you enter the Asiatic Society library at Fort, you get the feeling of stepping into another era: a gentler, slower dimension of Time, when the eminences frozen in marble – Juggannath Sankershet, Sir Bartle Frere and Sir John Malcolm among others – in the library’s foyer, were men of moving flesh and blood.
		Incidentally, the Samachar is almost as old as the Asiatic Society building which was designed by Colonel Cowper and completed in 1833 after 12 years at a cost of Rs.
		As you climb the curving stone steps towards the reception of the Asiatic Society library you feel you are ascending into loftier, ethereal regions.
	www.indiaprofile.com /heritage/asiaticlibrary.htm (839 words)

	Asiatic Society building to be restored- The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Asiatic Society building to be restored- The Times of India
		kolkata: the original building of the asiatic society, built in 1805, will be restored to its glory by the experts of the archaeological survey of india, new delhi.
		a letter to this effect reached the general secretary of asiatic society on monday.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow.asp?art_Id=11096877 (427 words)

	Sinological Journals \| Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Soon after its own founding, the Royal Asiatic Society became the nucleus of a network of scholarly societies in Asia, which were officially recognized as Branches and issued their own journals.
		The Asiatic Society, which had been founded in Calcutta on 15 January 1784 by Sir William Jones, became in 1854 the first "branch" association of the Royal Asiatic Society, under the parallel title Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal.
		A Medico-Chirurgical Society had been organized at Hong Kong in 1845; it was recognized as the China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society in 1847.
	www.umass.edu /wsp/sinology/journals/jras.html (307 words)

	The Hindu Business Line : Art auction to raise funds for Asiatic Society
		"Asiatic Society is a much venerated institution connected with education and research," said Mr Hemendra Kothari, Chairman, DSP Merrill Lynch Ltd. "We would like to see more corporates come forward and support the Asiatic Society as well as its rich cultural and historical legacy," he added.
		The Asiatic Society of Mumbai was founded in 1804 as the Literary Society by Sir James Mackintosh, a lawyer and jurist.
		The Society forms a part of the network of institutions created in the 1800s in Mumbai for the study of Indology and dissemination of knowledge about India and the Orient.
	www.thehindubusinessline.com /2005/01/14/stories/2005011401321700.htm (314 words)

	Heritage Institute of India - article by Dr. Gautam Chatterjee
		It was Asiatick Society (1784-1825); The Asciatic Society (1825-1835);The Asiatic Society of Bengal(1836-1951) and the Asiatic Society again since 1951.
		Asiatic Society is the oldest Academic publisher of India and over 150 years has been publishing a series of learned books known as the Bibliotheca Indica.
		After Asiatic Researcher, the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal remain a historical endeavour of the Society.
	www.ibiblio.org /gautam/heri0004.htm (1052 words)

	:: Library :: Welcome to official website of The ASIATIC SOCIETY, Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal, India !
		Since the foundation of the Society, books, manuscripts, drawings, coins, antiquarian and other objects of historical importance were exhibited to the society’s meetings, and kept in the custody of the Secretary.
		After the demise of the founder, the question of a permanent house for the Society was strongly felt for transacting its academic activities and for keeping and preserving for the posterity books, records, art, antiquarian and museum objects.
		The Society moved into its own building in the early part of 1808 and the Library was thrown open to the members and the public in the same year.
	www.asiaticsocietycal.com /library/index.htm (506 words)

	Herpetofauna of Myanmar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Journal of the Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 9: 391-423.
		Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington 48: 137-147.
		Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 102: 225-226.
	www.calacademy.org /research/herpetology/myanmar/bibliography.html (5235 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Metro
		After an 18-year hiatus, the Asiatic Society has thrown open its doors to new members to pore over its treasured tomes.
		The new entrants will be in addition to the society’s existing body of 1,200 members, of whom 400 are locals and 400 from outside West Bengal.
		Members are entitled to a 50 per cent commission (a 10 per cent hike on the earlier rate) on purchase of Asiatic Society publications at the ongoing book exhibition in the old building.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1031128/asp/calcutta/story_2618405.asp (495 words)

	Royal Asiatic Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Korea branch of the RAS was born in June 1900, when seventeen men from three countries (Germany, Great Britain, and America) met to form a branch of the Royal Asiatic Society of London.
		These founding fathers came from all walks of life: some had been members of the Society in London, and others were scholars and businessmen who were interested in forming a group to expand their knowledge of Korea and the Far East.
		Turbulent periods in the peninsula's history, such as the Korean War, resulted in the curtailment of many of the society's activities and the halting of the publication of the annual journal.
	www.iias.nl /iiasn/iiasn5/eastasia/ras.html (641 words)

	The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 4 Num 301 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Asiatic Society might extend the fellowship it awarded to Associate Professor Sufi Mustafizur Rahman of Jahangirnagar University (JU), the archaeologist who discovered the country's oldest road at Narshingdi's Belabo upazila last month, to help him continue with the excavation work.
		But after Asiatic Society granted him a post-doctorate fellowship last year, he resumed excavation on March 4 this year with 76 of his students.
		Thanking Asiatic Society for its role, Mustafizur Rahman asked philanthropists, other donors and the government to fund a full-scale excavation at the region, where he says the remains of a civilisation lies buried.
	www.thedailystar.net /2004/04/03/d40403011616.htm (470 words)

	Roots: Art & Culture
		Miniature portraiture was past recovery; the professional middle class, lawyers, physicians and teachers who led society were neither as affluent nor as anxious as the feudal landowners to spurn photography...
		The Indian Society for Oriental Art was founded in 1907, sponsored by Europeans - Woodroffe (a British judge who specialized in Tantra under the pseudonym of Arthur Avalon), James Cousins (a scholar) and Stella Kramrisch (a Hungarian who later made a name for herself as an art critic).
		At least two native artists are known to have stayed in the Karaya locality within walking distance of the Asiatic Society and the Museum.
	sankalpa.tripod.com /roots/s1artcul.html (3259 words)

	Munda Bibliography
		Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 10:1.1-132 (1925), 10:2.133-426 (1927), 10:3.427-502 (1940).
		Journal and proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 9.149-178 (1943).
		Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 2:5.85-120 (1907-1910).
	www.ling.hawaii.edu /austroasiatic/AA/Munda/BIBLIO/biblio.authors (11335 words)

	The Mythic Society , Bangalore - Founder Rev. Fr. A.M. Tabard
		The Society was the creation of the Europeans and Indian residents who were eager to know India's life, society and history, in the hope that useful and interesting information might be gathered of the history, growth and source of the civilization in which people lived.
		It is by his efforts that the Society could get many facilities both from the State Government and also from the Centre, and the Hall that used to house the Society (today the fantastic Society Library is in a new building behind the Daly Memorial Hall) is appropriately named after him.
		He had declared in 1923 that the Society was not meant only for the elite or the 'intellectual aristocracy' but also 'open to all who are interested, were it only ion a remote way' in the subjects which the Society is eager to promote.
	www.children-of-bangalore.com /mythics.htm (2575 words)

	Achievements of The Asiatic Society of Bombay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Society has installed mobile racks in the basement for better preservation of the valuable collection.
		The Society has set up Mumbai Port Trust Corner out of the grant received from Mumbai Port Trust- a special corner housing books relating to maritime history, maritime trade, development of the city of Mumbai and Mumbai Port Trust's impact on development of Mumbai has been set up in one of the mobile racks.
		Society also has its own bindery where specially skilled binders do the binding of rare and valuable books.
	education.vsnl.com /asbl/achieve.html (786 words)

	Victorian London - Entertainment and Recreation - Museums, Public Buildings and Galleries - Royal Asiatic Society
		The Royal Asiatic Society, Grafton Street, Bond Street, is instituted for the investigation and encouragement of arts, sciences, and literature, with respect to Asia.
		The Society usually meets on the first and third Saturdays in every month, from November to June inclusive.
		The Society meets on the first and third Saturday, at 3 p.m., from November to July.
	www.victorianlondon.org /entertainment/royalasiaticsociety.htm (159 words)

	Bibilography: Secondary Readings on Himalayan Hydrology
		Abbott, J. (1848) Inundation of the Indus taken from the lips of an eyewitness, A.D. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 17: 230-232.
		Falconer, H. (1841) Letter to the Secretary of the Asiatic Society on the recent Cataclysm of the Indus.
		Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 33: 2: 51-73.
	nsidc.org /pubs/gd/29/1.8.html (3105 words)

	Shantideva Online ::: Your Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life
		Welcome to the homepage of the Shantideva Society, a non-sectarian association and community founded in the Chinese Madhyamika tradition of the Chan Ssu Lun at the Mahabodhi Sunyata Seminario de Espana in Tarragona, Spain.
		Embracing the Bodhisattva Dharma as a means in and of itself, the members of the Shantideva Society seek to realize the spirit of the Bodhisattva Way of Life as it existed within the early Buddhist community and the development of that spirit through the teachings of Acharya Shantideva, author of the Bodhicaryavatara.
		J.M. Dharmakara Boda (Shan-tao Shi-Ixong), the guardian of the Shantideva Society, serving as the project's exectutive director.
	www.shantideva.net (735 words)

	1784 - Calcutta - Asiatic Society of Bengal - History of Scholarly Societies
		Otness (1998) points out that, years later, in 1823, a society with similar goals, the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland was formed in Britain.
		Furthermore, in 1829 the Asiatic Society (Bengal) became the first branch of the RAS.
		For part of the time (perhaps v.15 onward) the title was given with the more modern spelling: Asiatic researches, or, Transactions of the society instituted in Bengal, for inquiring into the history and antiquities, the arts, sciences, and literature of Asia.
	www.scholarly-societies.org /history/1784as.html (576 words)

	Vedanta Society of New York---Bhagavad-Gita Casts its Spell on the West: Part 1
		The Bible Society, which was founded in England in 1816, has 146 branches throughout the world.
		The Impact of the Asiatic Society and Charles Wilkins' Bhagavad-Gita on Europe
		The Asiatic Society of Bengal was founded in Calcutta by Sir William Jones (1746-1794) on January 15, 1784 and pioneered Indian research and scholarship in particular and Asian studies generally.
	www.vedanta-newyork.org /articles/bhagavad_gita_1.htm (838 words)

	1845 - Colombo - Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka (RAS SL) = History of Scholarly Societies
		According to Otness (1998), the Society was founded in 1845 as the Asiatic Society of Ceylon.
		In 1846 it became a branch of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, known as the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society.
		Otness (1998) establishes the start date for this name; the end date is stablished by the fact that the country's name changed on 1972, May 22.
	www.scholarly-societies.org /history/1845rassl.html (220 words)

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