Fellows of the Royal Asiatic Society
- Fellows of the Royal Asiatic Society
Fellows of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland are the "great and good" people elected by the Council of the Royal Asiatic Society to further "the investigation of subjects connected with and for the encouragement of science literature and the arts in relation to Asia".
The Society was established in London in 1823 and received its Royal Charter from King George IV the following year. Since then, the Society has been a forum, through lectures, its journal, and other publications, for scholarship relating to Asian Studies of the highest level. The Royal Asiatic Society (RAS) is the United Kingdom's senior learned society in Asian Studies, and is patronised by His Royal Highness The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales.
At present the Society has about 700 members, all styled Fellows, of whom half live abroad. Fellows include highly accomplished and notable scholars of Asian Studies, and are entitled to use post-nominal letters FRAS.
Notable fellows
* Sir William Jones
* Sir Aurel Stein
* Sir Wilfred Thesiger
* Sir Rabindranath Tagore
* Sir Richard O. Winstedt
* Professor Dr. Ahmad Hasan Dani
* Professor Sebastian Kim
* Professor Johann Georg Bühler
* Professor David Marshall Lang
* Professor Anna L. Dallapiccola
* Professor Anthony Stockwell
* Professor Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri
* Professor Francis Robinson
* Ustad Aashish Khan Debsharma
* Charles Malouf Samaha, Esq.
ee also
* Royal Asiatic Society
External links
* [http://www.royalasiaticsociety.org/ Royal Asiatic Society]
* [http://www.umass.edu/wsp/sinology/societies/ras.html Description of Royal Asiatic Society]
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