Ancient India & Iran Trust

Man, Landscape, and Society in Arsacid and Sasanian Iran Cereti, Carlo Giovanni, Pierfrancesco Callieri & Vito Messina (eds.). 2025. Eranshahr. Man, Landscape, and Society in Arsacid and Sasanian Iran (Collana Convegni 75). Rome: Sapienza Università Editrice. This fourth volume of the Atlas of the Ancient Near East (OCAVOA) collects 15 contributions by members of the three Units composing the PRIN 2017 ‘Eranshahr: Man Landscape and Society in Arsacid and Sasanian Iran.

Man, Landscape, and Society in Arsacid and Sasanian Iran

Cereti, Carlo Giovanni, Pierfrancesco Callieri & Vito Messina (eds.). 2025. Eranshahr. Man, Landscape, and Society in Arsacid and Sasanian Iran (Collana Convegni 75). Rome: Sapienza Università Editrice. This fourth volume of the Atlas of the…

Language and Culinary Culture – Dinner Menu for International Congress of Orientalists Some time ago, a researcher visited us to consult the papers of the International Congress of Orientalists held in our collections. Although these papers are classified as part of our institutional ar...

Latest blogpost on an interesting item in our Archives - a dinner menu for the 1889 International Congress of Orientalists. Check out how iconic dishes around the globe are celebrated in different ancient and modern Asian languages! royalasiaticsociety.org/language-and...

Arpan The Cambridge Indian Classical Music Community presents Arpan, a concert dedicated to Lucy Cavendish College's mission.

17 October - Indian classical music at West Road Concert Hall to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Lucy Cavendish College

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Strawberries and scholarship India and Iran converge again in Cambridge The temptation was strawberries, but I savoured learning’s creamy layer. In 1998, I’d interviewed Richard Blurton — yes with an ‘l’ – when,  as director of B...

@timesofindianews.bsky.social‬ columnist Bachi Karkaria on her recent visit to the Trust: timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/errati...

Congratulations to our trustee Prof Cameron Petrie on his appointment as Head of the Department of Archaeology at Cambridge University.

seminar on 9th June at 1pm

Our visiting scholar Professor MB Rajani is presenting "Uncovering Mughal Agra: Riverfront Gardens, City Walls, and Urban Transformations through Remote Sensing and GIS" next week.

Please come along to the McDonald Institute if you are in Cambridge or via Zoom 👇

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The Bodhi tree at the Mahābodhi Temple in Bodhgaya, Bihar, India.

Our lecture this Friday is now a hybrid event. Join us in person or online: mailchi.mp/e3e11f261cb2...

An encounter between Sarmad Kashani (d. 1661 CE), a Sufi of Iranian Jewish origin, with the Mughal Prince Dara Shukoh (d. 1659). The accompanying Persian quatrain reads, 'Sarmad, who attained union with the Eternal, / reached the station of Muhammad himself. Even the executioner's sword could not sober him, / since he was drunk with the wine of divine union.' From the Tajalli ʿAli Album, Princeton University Library MS 102G, f. 3v.

We hope you can join us for our (in-person) Easter Term Friday lectures.

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Sir Harold Bailey on film at the Trust - a lovely little section from a 1985 documentary has just come to our attention.

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Smoke of Incense Persian Classical Music Concert

Cambridge Nahoft will be performing at Trinity College Chapel on Monday 31 March.

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Duplicate books for sale - updated list for March 2025.
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Spaces are available for our Cambridge festival talk on Friday 21 March: 'New Epigraphic Discoveries from Ancient Bactria'by our Chair, Professor Nicholas Sims-Willaims

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To book your place, email info@indiran.org

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Education for all? Lessons from the South Bank to Georgia State, Rt Hon Simon Hughes.

The Professor John Hinnells Memorial Lecture
Tue 4 Mar 5.30pm-6:30pm The Auditorium, Robinson

What can help Cambridge, Russell Group and all universities in England do better?

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William Jones (1746–1794), philologist, Indologist, Sanskrit scholar, writer. Steel engraving (c. 1840), after a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds

Looking forward to our lecture this Friday by Professor Douglas Hedley:

'The Romantic Appropriation of India'.

All welcome.

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The latest edition of our newsletter, Indiran, is now available online www.indiran.org/about/trust-...

Detail from the commemorative vase designed for M. M. Bhownagree © Marzbeen Jila

We have two in-person Friday lectures this term, on 21 February and 7 March, as well as a talk for Friends of the Trust this Friday.

We hope you can join us.

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Happy New Year for 2025. Our first blogpost of the year starts with the sad news of long-term Member, Michael Loewe but also highlights news from the Royal Asiatic Society of Georgia: royalasiaticsociety.org/happy-new-ye...