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  • Student Opportunities

    The South Asia Center offers several student opportunities through our Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship, Summer Internships and the Pulitzer Center International Reporting Fellowship. Learn more and apply under the 'student opportunities' tab.

  • K-12 Outreach

    The South Asia Center provides in-person and online resources, workshops, and professional development opportunties to K-12 teachers, Affiliated Faculty, and their classrooms.

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Penn's South Asia Center, in conjunction with the Center for the Advanced Study of India and the Department of South Asia Studies, has kept the University of Pennsylvania at the leading edge of scholarship relating to South Asia.

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Upcoming Events



Temple Tracks: Labour, Piety and Railway Construction in Asia

In collaboration with The Southeast Asia Working Group (SEAG), the South Asia Studies Department (SAST), and the Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS)
Vineeta Sinha, National University of Singapore.
Apr 18, 2024 at - | Annenberg School of Communication Rm 119 | 3620 Walnut St, Philadelphia PA 19104

 

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Islamic History in Ruins: Stories of Sainthood, Ruination and Resilience from the Peninsula

In collaboration with the Southeast Asia Working Group (SEAG) and the South Asia Studies Department (SAST)
Teren Sevea, Harvard Divinity School
Apr 19, 2024 at - | Cohen Rm 337 | 249 S 36th St, Philadelphia, PA 19104

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Falconing with Aurangzeb: The Pleasures and Dangers of the Mughal Hunt in the Seventeenth Century

In collaboration with the South Asia Studies Department (SAST)
Apr 24, 2024 at - | Mcneil Building 3718 Locust Walk Room 150

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South Asia at Penn
Center for the Advanced Study of India

Founded in 1992, the Center for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania is the first research institution in the United States dedicated to the study of contemporary India. A national resource, it fills an urgent need for objective knowledge of India's politics and society, rapidly changing economy, and transformation as both an ancient civilization and major contemporary power.
Department of South Asia Studies

The study of South Asia at Penn has a tradition stretching back over a hundred years. The department has trained generations of leaders in the field and remains one of the most distinguished places to study South Asia in the United States. Today the South Asia Studies Department is a close-knit community of interdisciplinary scholars that combines expertise in the languages, literatures, histories, and cultures of South Asia.