Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
The Asiatic Society
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
- Asiatick Society; The Asiatic Society of Bengal, The Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1784-
History
The Asiatic Society is a Government of India organisation founded during the Company rule in India to enhance and further the cause of 'Oriental research' (in this case, research into India and the surrounding regions). It was founded by the philologist William Jones in 1784 in a meeting presided over by Justice Robert Chambers in Calcutta, the then-capital of the Presidency of Fort William.