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- Most items in our Collections can be made available for you to consult in our Reading Room which is open at the following times: Tuesday: 10.00-17.00 Thursday: 14.00-17.00 Friday: 10.00-17.00
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- Anyone is welcome to visit to consult our collections during these hours, and almost all of our collections can be made available at short notice. We may ask for an explanation of your research if you request to see particularly rare or fragile material. For more information, please contact us. Please contact us to let us know when you intend to visit so we can ensure you are not disappointed upon your arrival. However, if for any reason you are not able to give us advance notice, we will do our best to accommodate you when you arrive. When you first visit the reading room, please bring photographic identification and proof of address. This is required to register as a reader and use our collections.
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- The Reading Room is located on the first floor of our building and is wheelchair accessible.
List of Collections(View as Search Results)
- The Cities and Towns of China
- The Hitopadesha in the Hindi Braj Bhasha dialect
- The Narrative of Taleb Sidi Ibrahim be Muhammed in Berber, Arabic and English
- A Collection of Dharanis transcribed in Sanskrit, Chinese and Korean
- A Copy of the Puthen Pana by Johann Ernst Hanxleden
- A Maldivian Nakaiyterikaṅ (astrology) manuscript
- A Partial Translation of the Prabhu Linga Leelai
- A Petition to the House of Commons by the Natives of Bombay
- Aja'ib al Tabaqat by Muhammad Tahir b. Abul Qasim translated by Sir Legrand Jacob
- Akbar Nameh of Abul Fazl Allami translated by Lieutenant Chalmers.
- All-India Oriental Conference
- An Eastern Odyssey
- An Enquiry into the Order of Chapters of the Qur'ān
- An Indo-Afghan Border Story: Unto us a Child is Born
- Anglo-American Conference of Historians
- Archaeological Joint Committee
- Asia House
- Asiatic Society
- Asiatic Society of Bangladesh
- Asiatic Society of Japan
- Asiatic Society of Mumbai
- Association of British Orientalists
- Assyrian Excavation Fund
- Bajān Tadjalli
- British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia
- British Association of Malaya
- British Institute at Ankara
- British School of Archaeology in Iraq
- Catalogue of the Japanese collection of J.F. Van Overmeer Fisscher
- Catalogues and Lists of Asiatic Material
- China Society
- Chinese Documents on Trade Regulations with the English
- Chinese Secret Societies in Malaya
- Chinese-English Dictionary
- École Française d'Extrême-Orient
- Conference on Official and Non-Official Co-operative Action
- Congress of the Federation of Learned Societies of North Africa
- Copies of Sanskrit Inscriptions from the Palatine Temples, Kathiawar
- Copies, transcripts and translations of stone and copperplate inscriptions, Gujarat, India.
- Copy of the Inscription from a Stone Tablet, Baidi Cheng, China
- Coronation of the Sultan of Selangor, Hisamuddin Alam Shah
- Diccionario Grandonico Malabar Portvguez
- Discourses on Muslim doctrine and ethics
- Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Documents of Maratha History
- Entwurf einer Grammatik der Herero Sprache - an English translation
- European Consortium for Asian Field Study
- Extracts from the Records of Bombay and Surat
- Finnish Oriental Society (Finska Orientsällskapet)
- Foundation Epigraph at the Jama Masjid, Ahmedabad
- Foundation for Science and Technology
- Fragment of the Valmiki Ramayana in Kanarese
- Friends of the Palestine Museums
- Grammaire Tagalog
- History of the Gujarat Sultanate
- Horniman Museum
- Index of Languages from the 'Historical Catalogue of the Printed Editions of Holy Scripture'
- Index to the Mythological Box of Hindu Paintings
- India Office Library
- Indian Accounts or Response Forms
- "Inscription from the Fa-hsing Temple at Canton"
- Inscription on the Tell Duweir ewer
- Inscriptions from a Temple, "Uncha Pahar"
- Institut d'Histoire de l'Émigration Politique Contemporaine
- Instructions of the Chinese Government to the Merchants trading with the Russians
- International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences
- International Congress of Geography
- International Congress of Libraries and Documentation Centres
- International Congress of Linguists
- International Congress of Orientalists
- International Fund for the Archaeological Exploration of India
- International Union for Oriental and Asian Studies
- Introduction on the Elements of the Afghan language
- Iran Society
- James George Roche Forlong Fund
- Joint Session of the Royal Asiatic Society, the Société Asiatique, American Oriental Society and the Scuola Orientale-R. Università di Roma
- Journal of Compass Bearings
- Letters of Fath-Ali Shah and Abbas Mirza to Sir Gore Ouseley
- List of Inscriptions from Northern India
- Madras Literary Society
- Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
- Manuscripts concerning the history of Java
- Mythic Society
- Mémoire sur l'histoire ancienne du Japon : d'après le Ouen Hien Tong Kao de Ma-Touan-Lin
- Naqshye Aqwam-e zaminderan - Tables of zamindars
- Notebooks on India
- Notes on Cuddapah
- "Notes on the Ancient Figures and Inscriptions from Márab"
- Oriental Societies
- Oriental Translation Fund
- Other Societies and Institutions
- Papers of A.R. Ward
- Papers of Abraham Poliak
- Papers of Alan Charles Trott
- Papers of Alexander Gerard
- Papers of Alexander Hamilton and Graves Chamney Haughton
- Papers of Alexander Johnston
- Papers of Alexander Rogers, 1825-1910
- Papers of Alexandre Anastasius Pallis
- Papers of Angus C. Graham
- Papers of Anton Tien
- Papers of Arthur Anderson, Clement, Edward William, Henry, and Walter West
- Papers of Barbara Ingham
- Papers of Benjamin Heyne
- Papers of Bernard Quaritch
- Papers of Bhagwan Lal Indraji
- Papers of Brian Houghton Hodgson
- Papers of Captain Henry Harkness
- Papers of Captain Henry Ormsby
- Papers of Captain James Purefoy
- Papers of Charles Philip Brown
- Papers of Clinton Thomas Dent
- Papers of Colmán McLaughlin
- Papers of Colonel Sir John Fisher Turner
- Papers of Daniel John Gogerly
- Papers of David Erskine
- Papers of David Haliburton
- Papers of David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer and Emily Overend Lorimer
- Papers of David Price
- Papers of Dennis Duncanson
- Papers of Derek Davis
- Papers of Dora Gordine
- Papers of Dr David Richardson
- Papers of Dr. Hartwig Hirschfeld
- Papers of Edward Conze
- Papers of Edward Rehatsek
- Papers of Edward Walter Hutchinson
- Papers of Edward William Lane
- Papers of Edward William West
- Papers of Emil Forchhammer
- Papers of Fleming Mackenzie
- Papers of Francis Buchanan-Hamilton
- Papers of George Grenville Malet
- Papers of Gerald Tibbetts
- Papers of Henry Thomas Colebrooke
- Papers of Horace Geoffrey Quaritch Wales
- Papers of Horace Hayman Wilson
- Papers of Hugh George Rawlinson
- Papers of Iltudus Thomas Prichard
- Papers of J.E. Talbert
- Papers of James Caulfeild
- Papers of James Low
- Papers of Johannes Rahder
- Papers of John Cecil Cloake
- Papers of John Dowson
- Papers of John Drew Bate
- Papers of John Edye
- Papers of John George Taylor
- Papers of John Hansman and David Stronach
- Papers of John Massey Stewart
- Papers of John Romer
- Papers of Joseph Edkins
- Papers of Laurence Austine Waddell
- Papers of Lucian Scherman
- Papers of Major General Sir Frederic John Goldsmid
- Papers of Major J. Stuart King
- Papers of Major J.R. Cunningham
- Papers of Major-General Thomas Hardwicke
- Papers of Mary Rowlatt
- Papers of Maurice Patrick O'Connor Tandy
- Papers of Michael John Rowlandson
- Papers of P.E. Roberts
- Papers of Professor E.H.S. Simmonds
- Papers of Ram Gharib Chaube
- Papers of Ram Raz
- Papers of Raymond Head
- Papers of Reginald le May
- Papers of Reginald Stanley Underhill
- Papers of Reinhold F.G. Müller
- Papers of Rev Dr Adam Clarke
- Papers of Reverend George Smith
- Papers of Richard and Turner Macan
- Papers of Richard Francis Burton
- Papers of Richard Pankhurst
- Papers of Samuel Davis
- Papers of Saroj Nalini Arambam and John Parratt
- Papers of Sir Arnold Talbot Wilson
- Papers of Sir Aurel Stein
- Papers of Sir Charles Colville
- Papers of Sir Henry Miers Elliot
- Papers of Sir Michael Cavanagh Gillett
- Papers of Sir William Jones and Lady Anna Maria (Shipley) Jones
- Papers of T.W. Rhys Davids
- Papers of Terence A. Phelps
- Papers of the Gibb Memorial Trust
- Papers of Thomas Andrew Lumisden Strange
- Papers of Thomas Hervey Baber
- Papers of Thomas John Newbold
- Papers of Thomas Manning, Chinese Scholar, First English visitor to Lhasa, Tibet
- Papers of Thomas Pell Platt
- Papers of Vennelacunty Soob Row
- Papers of Walter Melville Wace
- Papers of Wilfred Lawson Blythe
- Papers of William Adair Nelson (1907-1993)
- Papers of William Augustus Collins
- Papers of William Claxton Peppé
- Papers of William Cullen
- Papers of William Edward David Allen
- Papers of William Edward Maxwell
- Papers of William Pettigew
- Papers of William Roff
- Papers of William Theobald
- Partial copy of the Daśabhūmīśvara
- Patparganj Pillar
- Plate of Akshobhya in his Abhirati Heaven
- Proposed Branch Societies of the Royal Asiatic Society
- Reception of Lord Amherst by Rup Lal Mallick
- Report from the Madras Government on the importance of the study of Sanskrit
- Reports on India
- Representation of a Gold Medal struck at the command of Shah Jehan A.H. 1064
- Royal Anthropological Institute
- Royal Asiatic Society Collections Catalogues and Handlists
- Royal Asiatic Society Collections Loans
- Royal Asiatic Society Collections Acquisitions Records
- Royal Asiatic Society Collections Policy Documents
- Royal Asiatic Society Collections Disposal Records
- Royal Asiatic Society Collections Library Committee Minutes
- Royal Asiatic Society Collections Research Registration Records
- Royal Asiatic Society Delegates
- Royal Asiatic Society Finance: Minutes of Finance and Investment Committees
- Royal Asiatic Society Governance: Correspondence Volume One
- Royal Asiatic Society Governance: Correspondence Volume Two
- Royal Asiatic Society Governance: Minutes of Council Meetings
- Royal Asiatic Society Governance: Special General Meetings
- Royal Asiatic Society Governance: Royal Patronage
- Royal Asiatic Society Governance: Preliminary Correspondence
- Royal Asiatic Society Governance: Administration
- Royal Asiatic Society Governance: Committee of Correspondence
- Royal Asiatic Society Governance: Charter and Rules
- Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong
- Royal Asiatic Society Korea Branch
- Royal Asiatic Society Lectures and Events: Other Events
- Royal Asiatic Society Lectures and Events: Minutes of Events and House Committee
- Royal Asiatic Society Lectures and Events: Exhibitions
- Royal Asiatic Society Lectures and Events: Conferences
- Royal Asiatic Society Lectures and Events: Minutes of General Meetings
- Royal Asiatic Society Lectures and Events: Anniversary General Meetings
- Royal Asiatic Society Lectures and Events: General Meetings, Lectures and Book Launches
- Royal Asiatic Society Medal
- Royal Asiatic Society North China Branch
- Royal Asiatic Society O.W. Samson Award
- Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka
- Royal Asiatic Society Property: 14 Grafton Street
- Royal Asiatic Society Property: 60 Queen's Gardens
- Royal Asiatic Society Property: 73 Collier Street
- Royal Asiatic Society Property: 5 New Burlington Street
- Royal Asiatic Society Property: 56 Queen Anne Street
- Royal Asiatic Society Property: 22 Albemarle Street
- Royal Asiatic Society Property: 74 Grosvenor Street
- Royal Asiatic Society Public School Medal
- Royal Asiatic Society Publications: Minutes of the Publications Committee and the Monograph Editorial Board
- Royal Asiatic Society Richard Burton Memorial Medal
- Royal Asiatic Society Triennial Gold Medal
- Royal Asiatic Society Universities Prize Essay Fund
- Royal Asiatic Society: 160th Anniversary Celebrations
- Royal Asiatic Society: 175th Anniversary Celebration
- Royal Asiatic Society: Centenary
- Royal Asiatic Society: Finance
- Royal Asiatic Society: Journal
- Royal Asiatic Society: Research Fellowships
- Royal Asiatic Society: Sesquicentenary
- Royal Asiatic Society: The Denis Sinor Medal
- Royal Asiatic Society: The George Staunton Prize
- Royal Asiatic Society: The Professor Mary Boyce Prize
- Royal Geographical Society
- Royal Society for Arts
- Royal Society for Asian Affairs
- Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- Russian translation of the Georgian Code of King Vakhtang
- Sanskrit and Braj Manuscript
- Sanskrit Inscriptions from Mandār Hill
- Scottish Association for Asian Studies
- Second Turkish Linguistic Congress
- Siam Society
- Sinhala - English dictionary
- Sketch and description of a temple fresco, Reespa, on the banks of the Sutlej river, Kinnaur
- Society for Old Testament Study
- Société Asiatique
- Sonnets on the 99 Names of God
- South Kensington Museum
- Syro-Egyptian Society
- Tenth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies
- Translation of the Emperor of China's Letter to the King of England
- Universities
- 'Various methods of cheating practiced by Goldsmiths and their language'
- Yādgār-i Cishtī by Noor Ahmad Chishti