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South Asia Studies at the Australian National UniversitySouth Asia Masala BlogDriving knowledge and debate on South Asia
The study of South Asia (primarily India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, the Maldives) originated at the ANU in the 1950s, and a number of scholarly leaders, including A. L. Basham, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Ranajit Guha, Ravinder Kumar, D. A. Low, J. T. F. Jordens, J. W. de Jong, Peter Reeves, O. H. K. Spate and Robin Jeffrey have worked or studied here. Today, interests in South Asia are spread across the university but are primarily concentrated in the Research School of Pacific & Asian Studies (RSPAS) and the Faculty of Asian Studies (FAS), both academic units of the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific. RSPAS houses the Australia South Asia Research Centre (ASARC) under Professor Raghbendra Jha, who holds the Rajiv Gandhi Chair of South Asian Economics, and the Resource Management in Asia-Pacific (RMAP) Program, which studies the historical, social and institutional context of natural resource management. Scholars and students devoted to the study of South Asia in RSPAS include Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt (RMAP), Assa Doron (Anthropology), Maxine Loynd and Venkatachalam Thiruppugazh (Political and Social Change), Kate Sullivan (International Relations). The Faculty of Asian Studies has had a long-standing commitment to South Asia going back to the appointment of Professor A. L. Basham, author of The Wonder That Was India, in 1965. The Faculty's South Asia Centre, launched in 2007, focuses on the languages and literatures of South Asia from the earliest times until the present; it teaches Sanskrit, Hindi, Urdu and Persian. Its members are McComas Taylor (Head), Richard Barz, John Powers and Yogendra Yadav. The Faculty's Centre for Asian Societies and Histories teaches courses in South Asian society, politics and religion. ActivitiesSince 2006, RSPAS has hosted the fortnightly ANU South Asia Seminar Series. The South Asia Studies Summer School, a week-long program of intensive research activities designed to bring together PhD and masters students working on South Asia throughout Australia, New Zealand and other countries, participated in Asia Pacific Week in 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2009 . In 2008, ANU co-convened (with University of Canberra) India Update: India in/and Australia and hosted two workshops: Cultural Politics of Disadvantaged Castes in India and Health, Culture and Religion in South Asia. ANU academics with research interests in South AsiaEconomicsPrema-chandra Athukorala (ASARC, RSPAS) Satish Chand (Crawford School of Economics and Government) Stephen Howes (Crawford School of Economics and Government)
Raghbendra Jha (ASARC, RSPAS) Politics and SecurityBina D'Costa (Centre for International Governance & Justice, RegNet) Alexander (Sandy) Gordon (Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security, RegNet) Robin Jeffrey (RSPAS) Brij Lal (Pacific and Asian History, RSPAS) William Maley (Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy) Amin Saikal (Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Faculty of Arts) Society and cultureAssa Doron (Anthropology, RSPAS) Richard Barz (South and West Asia Centre, Faculty of Asian Studies) Debjani Ganguly (Centre for Cross-Cultural Research) Patrick Kilby (School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Faculty of Arts) Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt (RMAP, RSPAS) John Powers (CASH, Faculty of Asian Studies) McComas Taylor (CASH, Faculty of Asian Studies) Yogendra Yadav (South and West Asia Centre, Faculty of Asian Studies) Library holdingsThe Library's collection reflects the long association of ANU with South Asian studies, with significant holdings of Indian history, politics, society, philosophy, religion, and Indian government publications; as well as Sanskrit, Hindi and Tibetan literature. There are smaller holdings of other South Asian languages, including Urdu, Bengali, Tamil and Marathi. PublicationsASARC Publications List (updated periodically)http://rspas.anu.edu.au/asarc/documents/Pubs_List.pdf The Basham Lectures
The First Ten K R Narayanan Orations RMAP Working Papers
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