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• The Asiatic Society of Mumbai invites applications for the position of a Librarian.
• Minimum requirements: MLib from a reputable recognised statutory University,
  with knowledge of computerized library services and digital resources.
• Previous experience including administrative experience should include at least 5 years in a large library.

The appointment will be on a contract basis for one (1) year extendable to three (3) years for a salary upwards of Rs.1.5 Lakh per month.

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ASM Elections on Saturday, 8th November 2025 from 3.15 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. to elect the Office Bearers / Managing Committee Members / Scrutinizing Committee Members

THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF MUMBAI
Town Hall,  Shahid Bhagatsingh Road, Mumbai 400 001 
 Tel: (office) 2266 0956,  (Library) 22660062,  (Hon. Secretary) 22665560
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REF. NO.:  ASM/NOTICE-Election/2025-26/287                  

N O T I C E
 

The Notice dated 9th September 2025 was sent to the members informing that the 221st AGM will be held on 27th September 2025; and that elections will be held later in view of the Order delivered on 6th August 2025 by the Charity Commissioner. 

Members are hereby informed that the elections will now be held on Saturday, 8th November 2025.  Members are requested to assemble at 3.15 p.m. in the Durbar Hall of the Society.  The voting will take place in the MM Dr. P.V. Kane Research Room of the Society at 3.30 p.m.

Ms. Madhavi G. Kamat, Hon. Jt. Secretary
Town Hall, Mumbai. Date:  3rd October, 2025                                             

A G E N D A

 1.   To invite vote counters and scrutineers for the election.
*2.  To elect the office bearers for two years (2025-2027) - President, 4 Vice-Presidents, and Hon. Secretary; to elect 5 members of the Managing Committee for a period of three years (2025-2028 term); and to fill one post of the Managing Committee which has fallen vacant (as per Rule No.15), for a period of two years 2025-27 (being the residual period of the term 2024-2027)
*3.   To elect a Scrutinizing Committee consisting of seven members for the year 2025-2026.

Download :

• Notice and Election Schedule
  
• Nomination Form - Office Bearers / Managing Committee 
• Nomination Form - Scrutinizing Committee

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ENDOWMENT LECTURES SECTION 

• Thirteenth Professor Dhirendra Narain Endowment Lecture by Prof. Pratap Bhanu Mehta
  Topic:  “Does Free Speech have a Future Held on:  30^th July 2025
  
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wkfYBBfctdEKxPcCza4aYtXOZRQl6sqK/view?usp=sharing
  
• Fifth Dr Meera Kosambi Endowment Lecture by Professor Rajan Gurukkal
  Held on:  24th April 2025
  Topic: “Historicising the Archeology of South Indian Megalithic Burials”
   https://drive.google.com/file/d/1P3_mOKxd_6w1wNrYraoe1PLQqvwGhqEM/view?usp=sharing

• The 13^th Durga Bhagwat Endowment Lecture held on 26th March 2025 
  by  Professor K. Krishnan on  “Applications of Science in Archaeology with special emphasis on Ceramic Petrology”
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XwpRC4WbaUJK9pJ5Ua5Lg4ItHMkHBB6W/view?usp=sharing
  

• 19th Dr Mani Kamerkar Endowment Lecture held on 18th February 2025 
  by Professor Vinay Lal on “A Diaspora Purana: The Figure of the Migrant and the Epic of Indian Indenture”
   https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NY2OCiioKdfkI_NSO2HkOsaBQBs6MbFA/view?usp=sharing
  

• ASM LitClub - Book Launch and Discussion Programme
  Sunanda Bhosekar's Marathi Book - पेरिप्लस ऑफ हिंदुस्थान (हिंदुस्थानची प्रदक्षिणा) (“The Periplus of Hindustan “)
  Tuesday 25th February 2025 at 4.30 p.m.https://youtu.be/eO4dfmB6kJI?si=725DoLGg4Mo00DNM
  
  
• 35th Smt. Nabadurga Banerji Endowment Lecture by Professor Himanshu Prabha Ray
  Author and Historian, Tagore National Fellow, Jawaharlal Nehru University Topic:  “The Modern Search for the Buddha's Relics” Held on:  9th January 2025 
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D750AVRikzJUBuNZXX83QibA5I9JAHLA/view?usp=sharing
   
• The 15th B. G. Deshmukh Endowment Lecture held on 11th December 2024
  by Shri. Tilak Devasher Topic: "Security: Why is it Critical for Good Governance?"
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vKv3r4m0OvjuUqNaiC54Q8J1k4Vc67LN/view?usp=sharing
  
• Recording Billimoria Endowment Lecture by Prof Mayank Vahia held on 3rd September 2024
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1brEZ3hM8toTKCc-SqsZMR1acoySLijlg/view?usp=sharing
  
  
• Twelfth Durga Bhagwat Endowment Lecture by Professor Subhash Walimbe
  Retd. Faculty, Deccan College PGRI (Deemed University), Pune on“Peopling of the Indian subcontinent”
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uVUar13sngqH6HYYE2qMoBUQpe7nS4Me/view?usp=sharing
  

• 14th B. G. Deshmukh Endowment Lecture by Dr. K.P. Krishnan, IAS (Retd),
  Former Secretary, Government of India on "Making Regulation in India work better"
  https://youtu.be/Ix9tU5TtFa0
  

• Fourth Dr Meera Kosambi Endowment Lecture held on 12th March 2024 
  by Dipankar Gupta on “The Urban Shift: From Patriarchy to Masculinity” 
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d24c6G5dSaNXSSjblX7xJkvKDjXAJp1E/view?usp=sharing
  
  
• Prof. L B Kenny Endowment Lecture held on 21st February 2024 by Brinda Somaya
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EUZLdYSU5hnXfrzPWgcfwm6ph3uPMc17/view?usp=sharing
  

• 30^th Smt. Bansari Sheth Memorial Lecture by Mr Justice Rohinton Nariman Former Judge of the Supreme Court of India and former Solicitor General of India
  on  “The Constitution of India:  Checks and Balances” held on Friday, 15^th December 2023
  https://www.youtube.com/live/JMNW2QCM9ac?si=ncSY4v3lt8XSdiFN
  

• Dr Mani Kamerkar Endowment Lecture   by   Dr. Ramachandra Guha held on 8th December 2023
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sqoxBRA_6SdVgjNJS1-KcO7swud2x0aN/view?usp=sharing
  
  
• Lit Club talk held on 30th August 2023 by Dr. Usha Thakkar and Dr. Pam Rajput
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Od8wdaMga2HYlA2d4k5cNKUFhf7ZJpVJ/view?usp=sharing
  

• Third Dr Meera Kosambi Endowment Lecture by Arshia Sattar, Ph.D. to be held on 29^th March 2023 
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/19suuGtPEDCiz78sGzb9FadrLYnIPYqXF/view?usp=share_link
  

• 13th B G Deshmukh Endowment Lecture by Ambassador Shyam Saran held on 5th April 2023
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GzFryOw8_evH_yTkxUqjVig7snRrYJRm/view?usp=share_link
  
  
• Gulestan & Rustom Billimoria Lecture by Prof. Naman Ahuja held on 27th February 2023 : 
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JaOmgKBMlWhGPy1nWRuqAALqg6u38dE9/view?usp=share_link
  

• Eleventh Professor Dhirendra Narain Endowment Lecture by Dr. Chithra Madhavan, Historian, on “Art and Architecture of the Pallavas - bearing on Society and Culture,” 
  Dr. Usha R Vijailakshmi, Professor of History, Patkar-Varde College & Vice President, Asiatic Society of Mumbai, presided at the lecture.:
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AJBFvv1PqeOQJZ2LWcVOF_qewXs3-gGW/view?usp=share_link

• ASM LitClub talk by Dr Manil Suri held on 24-01-2023 : : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FDuwkqMIYpeRQVoJOg7rgzVzGhmN8vkk/view?usp=share_link

• 33rd Nabadurga Banerji  Endowment Lecture held on 18th January 2023 by Dr. Choodamani Nandagopal, Art Historian, UNESCO Fellow & Tagore National Fellow, 
  on “Imagery of Female Messengers Dutikas/Sakhis in Indian Art, Thought and Literature.” : https://drive.google.com/file/d/18rDPm4XHpqWBFoMyQ9UAmrEYd7_jdDvI/view?usp=share_link
• Dr. Mani Kamerkar Endowment Lecture by Dr. Syed Ali Nadeem Rezavi held on 7th November 2022 : 1. https://youtu.be/8XMmBMNV3VE (part 1) / 2. https://youtu.be/0tP5zhoW544 ( part 2)
• Dr. Meera Kosambi Endowment Lecture : https://youtu.be/MqeLV8MLT8E
• The 12th B.G. Deshmukh Endowment Lecture (Online) delivered by Professor Bharat Karnad - YouTube held on 2nd March 2022 : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQZvEZBUsEU
• The 24th Gulestan and Rustom Billimoria Endowment Lecture (Online) by Professor Vasant Shinde on 23rd February 2022 : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SuukxGXZmRo
• The 27th Bansari Sheth Memorial Lecture by Justice Gautam Patel  : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEnWx1GYcAs
  
• 23rd Gulestan and Rustom Billimoria Endowment Lecture delivered by Dr Jonathan Mark Kenoyer : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ugAURDFI5M
• 15th Mani Kamerkar Endowment Lecture : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfQWiREpJiI
• “The Ant who Swallowed the Sun - The Abhangs of the Marathi Women Saints” : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I46Yp-Uu0nI
• Nabadurga Banerjee Endownment Lecture by Dr. Radhika Seshan : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTHBtfDfPQQ
• 9th Durga Bhagwat Endowment Lecture by Dr. Shrikant Bahulkar : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NrTd0c2BlE
• Ninth Professor Dhirendra Narain Endowment Lecture delivered by Professor Dr Phiroze Vasunia : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU_T9Pjn2M0
• 27th Justice K.T. Telang Memorial Lecture (online) by Dr Madhavi Kolhatkar : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=immO1uO9uYk
• 11^th B G Desmukh Endowment Lecture by Mr. Harsh Mariwala, Chairman, Marico Industries : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jskIs1YozpE 
• The 40th Mahamahopadhyaya Dr. P. V. Kane Memorial Lecture : https://youtu.be/iKhVHPUTYyk
• Dr. Usha Thakkar on the Congress Radio: Voice of Freedom in 1942 : https://youtu.be/c1xNJfAOwWs
• Maharashtra through Maps Session I - Palghar to Sindhudurg with Sudhakar Solomonraj : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReZyHm9wbgU&feature=youtu.be
• Maharashtra through Maps Session II - Khandesh to Western Ghats with Sudhakar Solomonra : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuG-2BliqQY&ab_channel=MumbaiFestival
• Maharashtra through Maps Session III - Marathwada with Sudhakar Solomonraj : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vpcXMU2Xu
• Maharashtra through Maps Session IV - Vidarbha with Sudhakar Solomonraj : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9vc2EEpTqA&ab_channel=MumbaiFestival
• Two Hundred Years of Mumbai na Shamachar: Public Address by Berjis Desai : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8ymryQyE9o
• Congress Radio - Voice of Freedom in 1942 : https://youtu.be/c1xNJfAOwWs
• From Bombay to Bokhara: India and Afghanistan in the Age of Empire : https://youtu.be/rzS3k5pn1cI
• 32nd Nabadurga Banerji Lecture held on 15th November 2021 : https://youtu.be/_doJBtEGjDQ 
• The 16th Dr. Mani Kamerkar Endowment Lecture “Early Christian Sailing Circuits in the Western Indian Ocean,’ held on 4th January 2022. : https://drive.google.com/file/d/16E0hyiUBudOJMk16DwD7e8edZEoTXEkE/view
• 32nd Nabadurga Banerji Endowment Lecture “Radio, academies, public concerts and the staging of modern Indian classical music: a case for new socio-aesthetic categories,” on 15th November 2021 : https://youtu.be/_doJBtEGjDQ
• 13^th Professor L. B. Kenny Endowment Lecture (Online) by Rahul Mehrotra, Architect and Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Harvard University, on ‘Architecture and Planning in a  Time of FLUX’
     held on 17th January 2022. : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VwBj0hVix0WZ6rz57dRpo8_Eu2F_Z-aD/view?ts=61eb787a
• Professor Jyotindra Jain: The Ferocious Consort ( 10 th Durga Bhagwat Endowment Lecture) : https://youtu.be/Yi8pcrOrnps

Lit Club Lecture : https://youtu.be/_doJBtEGjDQ

• The Ranakpur temple ( Justice K T Telang lecture by Dr. Saryu Doshi) :
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uxJkdErgYz0rpsGbql3q7o5OIVAegpk8/view?usp=share_link
  
• Recording of Lit Club talk by Sunil Shanbag : 
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RWEqEfh6g98g1RsmIAY3am21RB74b8TU/view?usp=share_link
• Lit Club Lecture: The Heritage of the Kakatiyas of Warangal - Dr. Varsha Shirgaonkar 
  Youtube link :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EmhNU-bQnc&feature=youtu.be

Aroon Tikekar Fellowship Award and Guest Lecture

• 5th Dr Aroon Tikekar Memorial Fellowship - Award & Guest Lecture : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml3SK_jbb2E&

MRC Lectures

• Gerald Aungier (1640-1677), President of Surat and the 2nd Governor of Bombay (1669-1677), succeeding George Oxenden : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dJnCT6gMsYRT7CJmboiaCTvciwg_rDzB/view?usp=share_link
• Shokhiyon mein ghola jaye... A Musical programme on Dev Anand. Concept and presentation Manek Premchand : https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/14wkd00jjEvdWyADtT7g8szGTtKHbyhUF?usp=sharing
•  Bombay Memorabilia (Part I) by Rajan Jayakar :  https://youtu.be/RZJKOPJMeNs
•  Bombay Memorabilia (Part II) by Rajan Jayakar : https://youtu.be/M7rg9gitkS0
• MRC Public Lecture - The Story of Bombay Through Philately by Pascal Roque Lopes : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9rMU07YwDY
• In Search of the Unknown - A Photographic Talk by Bharath Ramarutham : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVDDjXldXwY
• Seeing Time - Public Clocks of Bombay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRyrPVKGlLg
• Orientation - The Geography of Belief : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdQbhFVeDCI
• From Tents Shows to the Lost Cinemas - The Story of Bombay's Early Film Culture by Sharon Irani : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q6-oDStWOw
• Jashn - Literature Panel Discussion : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96OXNTl0Zco
• Jashn- Forgotten Mumbai : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Duexhujh7u0
• Jashn - Ranjit Hoskote - Alkazi in 1950s Bombay : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4oJBk-7-Pk
• Jashn – Masala Trail with Anjali Koli : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6vqH6OXkk4&
• Jashn – Closing Ceremony and Valedictory Address by Gyan Prakash : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3cuY4QvpE
• Jashn - The Story of Mumbai through Puppets : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hba1khK-eY
• Jashn - TRANSLATING THE CITY : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uGTIljCHM0
• Jashn - BOMBAY EK GEET : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8lWv-gFeWQ
• Jashn - HERITAGE, CONSERVATION AND DEMOCRACY : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMEQBWrr5yo
• DASTAAN MUMBAI MEIN THEATRE KE AMAD KA : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1qCDl-QyM8
• Jashn - RIVERS OF BOMBAY : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpZrwDGTWXg
• Jashn - LIVE DEMO OF GRANTH SANJEEVANI : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egJ0phEB3ig
• Jashn - LOOK UP MUMBAI : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSEPqwXvzK4
• Jashn- THE OTHER MUMBAI : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8YHNHbBveM
• Jashn - A GLIMPSE INTO THE ASIATIC SOCIETY : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V2tKWttic0
• Jashn - WATER WALK : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jK30Jq9yow
• Jashn - A MARITIME VOYAGE OF MUMBAI : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=278ivj_F1Jk
• Jashn - KEYNOTE ADDRESS : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLrz1tin5kE
• Jashn Trailer : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S1ZSsBVZts
• Jashn – Christopher London (Original) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPZdz9D0rrU
• Jashn-e-Dastaan-e-Mumbai Live with Rochelle Potkar : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSnKeQtUhOY

Foundation Day

• 217th Foundation Day Lectures by Jim Masselos and Arvind Ganachari : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S_uYPdoeV4
• Conservation of Old Books in the Asiatic Society of Mumbai : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfZCZn3xyr4
• Rare Books and Microfilming in the Asiatic Society of Mumbai : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvxeftcfEsw
• Binding of Old Books in the Asiatic Society of Mumbai : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3izVaXufSjQ
• Governor of Maharashtra visits Asiatic Society of Mumbai : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJrIADNrT68
• Granth Sanjeevani : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3UxTfBopsA
  
  
• Street Fauna and the Ecology of Mumbai : https://youtu.be/jwQ3OXhLyO4
• Naturally Mumbai: A Tribute to Sunderlal Bahuguna : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9d744Kdh3Q&ab_channel=MumbaiFestival
• Caring for Life: the Cipla Story since 1935  : https://youtu.be/LLScHbU5vrM
• Regenerating India's Ecological Civilization and Aranya Sanskriti" by Dr. Vandana Shiva" : https://youtu.be/QeAtggC6ePg
• Farokh Udwadia on "Medicine in Bombay Through the Ages": https://youtu.be/m-U_6X4dVVI