What is 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.<ref>http://www.royalasiaticsociety.org/ Official website of the RAS, retrieved 12 Sept 2014</ref> 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]] ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Royal Societies of the United Kingdom]] [[Category:1824 establishments in the United Kingdom]] [[Category:Research organisations in the United Kingdom]] {{UK-stub}}