Royal Asiatic Society

The Royal Asiatic Society (RAS), in full the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland was made in 1824, under a Royal Charter.http://www.royalasiaticsociety.org/ Official website of the RAS, retrieved 12 Sept 2014

The main aim of this Society is to study and to do research on all kinds of subjects about Asia. The members (called 'Fellows') live in the United Kingdom and many other countries of the world, and they write 'FRAS' after their names, to show they are its members.

The Society also publishes the famous journal, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society.

Notable Fellows
Henry Thomas Cranbrooke
Sir Richard Francis Burton
Thomas Manning
Sir Stamford Raffles
Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Sir Aurel Stein
Sir Wilfred Thesiger
Rabindranath Tagore
Ahmad Hasan Dani
Eric Newby
William Dalrymple
Omer Tarin
Tariq Rahman
Ustad Ashish Khan Debsharma

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Category:Royal Societies of the United Kingdom
Category:1824 establishments in the United Kingdom
Category:Research organisations in the United Kingdom