Welcome!
The Center for South Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is made up of a community of faculty and staff who reflect the diversity and global relevance of South Asian Studies.
Through our diverse academic disciplines, summer language institute, annual conference, student organizations and outreach programs, the Center seeks to define and promote greater understanding of South Asian history, language, religion and culture.
We also support linkages to other relevant area studies and global studies programs that emphasize transnational flows of culture, people, money in ways that are important to a better understanding of South Asia both in the past and the present.
News and Announcements
Professor B. Venkat Mani, writes for the Hindustan Times on the crisis in Afganistan
Professor B. Venkat Mani, former director of the Center for South Asia wrote recently for the Hindustan Times about the emerging situation with refugees from Afghanistan. The piece is titled, “Empires slay, publics pay: The …
September 14, 2021Professor Mou Banerjee Interviewed by Madison News Station about Afghanistan
Prof. Banerjee lends a historical perspective to the Taliban’s role in Afghanistan, discusses the role of Sharia law, and offers some clarification on common misconceptions surrounding the relationship between the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, and ISIS. Watch …
September 1, 2021Professor Aparna Dharwadker Receives Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
Professor Aparna Dharwadker received one of this year’s Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support her latest book project, “Contested Modernities and the Modernization of Urban Theatre in India.”
August 13, 2021Professor Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker Awarded 2020 Callaway Prize for Best Book in Drama and Theatre
The 2020 Callaway Prize for Best Book in Drama and Theatre has been awarded to A Poetics of Modernity: Indian Theater Theory, 1850 to the Present, (Oxford University Press), edited by Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker. The …
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