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Award
Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Awarded for
"the encouragement of science, literature, and the arts in relation to Asia"
Sponsored by
Royal Asiatic Society
Venue
14 Stephenson Way, London
Country
United Kingdom
Presented by
President of the Royal Asiatic Society under the patronage of HRH The Prince of Wales
Eligibility
Anyone nominated by an existing fellow and with a serious interest and achievements in Asiatic Studies
Post-nominals
FRAS
Reward(s)
Use of the society's library and facilities, receipt of the society's journal[1]
Status
Currently awarded
Established
1823
First awarded
1824
Total recipients
Around 700
Fellows of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland are individuals who have been 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".[2]
The Society has around 700 fellows, half of whom reside outside Britain. It is administered by a council of twenty fellows. The Society was established in 1823 and became "the main centre in Britain for scholarly work on Asia" with "many distinguished Fellows".[3] Fellows use the post-nominal letters FRAS.[4][5][6][7][8]
Past and current fellows include leading scholars, writers, and former politicians and governors who have made significant contributions to Asia and their respective fields. Previous Fellows have included British explorers Sir Richard Francis Burton, and Laurence Waddell, Officers of the British East India Company such as Sir Henry Rawlinson, Chief Justice of Ceylon Alexander Johnston, first Asian Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, and many more.[9][10]
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^Centenary Volume of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1823-1923. Frederick Eden Pargiter, Read Books, 2007. March 2007. ISBN 9781406757514.
^A Dictionary of Buddhism, ed. Damien Keown, Oxford University Press, 2003, p. 240
^The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations, 2nd edition, Market House Books Ltd and Oxford University Press, 1998, ed. Judy Pearsall, Sara Tulloch et al., p. 175
^Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 2011, Debrett's Peerage Ltd, p. 26
^The International Who's Who of Women 2002, 3rd edition, ed. Elizabeth Sleeman, Europa Publications, p. xi
^"Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland".
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^Ireland, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and (1856). Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland. Cambridge University Press for the Royal Asiatic Society.
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