ABSTRACT
Penton and Yate, supported by Lord Carnock, concentrated on their recruiting campaign. Both the RGS and RAS were asked to circulate leaflets about the Society, and Centres of Asian Studies in British universities were successfully lobbied for recruits. In June 1920 Yate was able to announce a 70 per cent increase in membership: ‘The old school of Central Asians know quite well that a new era has commenced and welcome to their ranks the younger generation who have problems to face which differ essentially from those which were the framework of what was known for a good half century as the Asian Question.’
