{"id":89245,"date":"2019-09-05T16:53:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T11:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=9871"},"modified":"2019-09-05T16:53:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T11:23:07","slug":"explained-now-with-first-woman-president-what-is-asiatic-society-mumbai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-now-with-first-woman-president-what-is-asiatic-society-mumbai\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained: Now with first woman president, what is Asiatic Society, Mumbai"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>Asiatic Society of Mumbai has elected the first woman president in the 215 years of its existence.Professor Vispi Balaporia will head the institution.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Asiatic Society:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Asiatic Society is a learned society whose activities include conducting historical research, awarding historians, and running an institute of postgraduate studies.<\/li><li>The societies library is home to over 1 lakh books which consists of rare manuscripts contributed to it by the East India Company as well as generous donations.<\/li><li>The Society offers Junior Fellowships for research and recommends scholars for the Tagore National Fellowship of the Ministry of Culture.The Governor of Maharashtra is the Society\u2019s Chief Patron.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>History of Asiatic Society<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Asiatic Society was established in 1804 as the Literary Society of Bombay.It was founded by Sir James Mackintosh,a Scottish colonial administrator who had a keen interest in Oriental studies.<\/li><li>In 1826,it became the Mumbai arm of the London-based Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland and came to be called the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (BBRAS).<\/li><li>In 1954,the institution was severed from its London parent and became the Asiatic Society of Bombay.In 2002, it acquired its present name.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:Asiatic Society of Mumbai has elected the first woman president in the 215 years of its existence.Professor Vispi Balaporia will head the institution. Facts: About Asiatic Society: Asiatic Society is a learned society whose activities include conducting historical research, awarding historians, and running an institute of postgraduate studies. The societies library is home to over&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-now-with-first-woman-president-what-is-asiatic-society-mumbai\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Explained: Now with first woman president, what is Asiatic Society, Mumbai<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1760],"tags":[6678],"class_list":["post-89245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-and-nation","tag-asiatic-society","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1702636592},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}