Royal India Society

Not to be confused with British India Society or London Indian Society.

The Royal India Society was a 20th-century British learned society concerned with British India.

The Society has had several names:[1][2][3]

  • The India Society (founded 1910);
  • The Royal India Society (from 1944);
  • The Royal India and Pakistan Society (after the Partition of India in 1947);
  • The Royal India, Pakistan and Ceylon Society (after 1948);
  • Finally it was merged with the East India Association in 1966.
  1. ^ Review, by K. R. Norman, of Coomaraswamy by Roger Lipsey, in Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 15, No. 2 (1981), pp. 339-341.
  2. ^ South Asian Review, The Royal Society for India, Pakistan, and Ceylon, 1969, page 374.
  3. ^ "Royal Society for India, Pakistan and Ceylon papers".