Vision & Mission

The main objectives of the Society are:

To organize, initiate and promote researches in Humanities and Science in Asia,
To establish, build, erect, construct, maintain and run research Institutions, reading rooms, museums, auditoriums and lecture halls,
To organize lectures, seminars, symposia, discussions, meetings and award of medals, prizes and scholarships in furtherance of the objectives.
To acquire, finance or publish any periodicals, books or other literature that the Society may think fit for the promotions of its objects;

With the march of time, the Asiatic Society had to expand its range of objectives and consequently the area of research. Of course it has not gone beyond the basic mandate issued by its founder Sir William Jones that it would work with “what is performed by Man and produced by Nature.” This mandate is being fully adhered to till now, consistent with the requirements of ever-expanding centre in human knowledge in modern times.

The Asiatic Society has played the pioneering and most crucial role in discovering India's past. The great Indologists and Orientalists like William Jones, Charles Wilkins, HT Colebrooke, BH Hodson, Francis Wilford, Samuel Davis, HH Wilson, James Prinsep had created their intellectual marvels at the Asiatic Society,

The Society has been also a great repository of the cultural heritage of the Country and the Society has been engaged for the last more than 200 years in disseminating the cultural heritage based on its resources by way of acting as a great centre of valuable manuscripts and other documents.