Welcome to the Program in South Asian Studies 

The Program in South Asian Studies offers undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to study the political, economic, social, and religious institutions of India and Pakistan. With an interdisciplinary curriculum reflecting the wide-ranging perspectives available at Princeton, the Program in South Asian Studies is committed to promoting a comprehensive understanding of the pre-modern and modern histories of these two states as well as of their contemporary institutions and relations with neighboring South Asian nations and the rest of the world. Navigate this Web site with the buttons to the left to learn more about the program and the requirements for an undergraduate Certificate of Proficiency.

 

NEWS

List of Current Princeton Graduate Students with Academic Interests in South Asia

Opportunities for College Graduates with Volunteers in Asia

Considering Study Abroad in India? Click here for Princeton-Approved Programs

Spring 2013 Courses
Click here for a complete list of spring 2013 courses

New South Asia Librarian at Princeton
Contact Gary J. Hausman at ghausman@princeton.edu

Profile of SAS Program Director Isabelle Clark-Deces

UPCOMING EVENTS and DEADLINES

SPRING 2013

Please note: An RSVP is required for all SAS lunch lectures. Please contact Jayne Bialkowski. jayne@princeton.edu or 609.258.2635. No registration is required for the graduate student "Colonialism and Imperialism" lunch series talks.

April 25, 2013
India and the US Pivot to Asia: Strategic Autonomy or Geopolitical Opportunity?
C. Raja Mohan, Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi
Noon
219 Aaron Burr Hall

 

 

April 26-27, 2013
Graduate Student Workshop
Modernity and its Discontents: Early Career South Asian Studies Workshop
Keynote speaker:  Thomas Blom Hansen, Stanford University
9:00 a.m.
219 Aaron Burr Hall
Cosponsored with the University Center for Human Values, the Council of the Humanities, and the Center for Collaborative History

May 1, 2013
Film Screening
Final Solution
Dir. Rakesh Sharma (2004)
7:30 p.m.
101 McCormick Hall

About the film: Final Solution is a study of the politics of hate. Set in Gujarat during the period February-March 2002 and July 2003, the film graphically documents the changing face of right-wing politics in India through an examination of the carnage wrought on Gujarat in 2002. The pogrom against Muslims took place while Narendra Modi was chief minister of Gujarat. This film examines political tendencies reminiscent of Nazi Germany in the early/mid-1930s.
Cosponsored by the Department of English

photo credits: David Magier, skweiner