The South Asia section of UW Libraries received a rare gift of 416 slides of Chandayan Manuscript offered by Dr Naseem Hines. These slides came from the John Ryland Museum in Manchester, U.K. Cāndāyan is the very first masnavī composed in Awadhi, the regional language of the eastern Gangetic plains. The story of Cāndāyan is

The South Asia of UW Libraries, in collaboration with Special Collections, digitized a portion of a very special Odissi dance collection, offered to UW Libraries by Dr. Ratna Roy and  David J Capers. Deepa Banerjee, the South Asian Studies Librarian, secured UW Libraries’ Allen Opportunity grant to get this project rolling. About the Collection Dr

Recently, the South Asia Center graduate assistant interviewed Kuldeep Singh, who joined the University of Washington in the Fall of 2022 as a Full-Time Lecturer of Painting & Drawing. Prior to this work, he taught at Delhi University and the University of Iowa. He has also been a guest critic at NYU and Rhode Island

Over the last year, faculty affiliated with the South Asia Center published ample scholarly articles, book chapters and reviews on diverse topics related to South Asia. From global health to climate change, politics and culture to gender and literature, our faculty engage in lively debates and make important contributions to the field of South Asia

From the Department of Asian Languages & Literature: As of Winter 2023, the new major and minor in South Asian Languages and Cultures are live! The major is 65 credits. Students can go in depth with a single South Asian language or combine two South Asian languages from our offerings (Bengali, Hindi, Sanskrit, Urdu), along

The South Asia Center welcomes two incoming visiting Fulbright Scholars from South Asia, who will be joining UW in Winter Quarter 2023. Visiting scholars carry out a research project under the supervision of a UW faculty mentor, and join in the intellectual community of the South Asia Center and associated departments across campus. Read on

Throughout time the degrees and forms of human rights violations have changed but art and culture have always been used as significant tools to demonstrate the resistance to such violations all over the world. The course “Human Rights and Resistance: A Case of South Asia” (BIS 466), offered at UW-Bothell in autumn 2022, examines the

On January 6, the Title VI Centers in the Jackson School of International Studies hosted a reception to celebrate the recipients of Summer 2022 and Academic Year 2022-23 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships. The six Title VI Centers awarded a total of 83 FLAS fellowships to students representing 12 departments across the College

South Asia Center Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellow Nathanael Mark (MA – South Asia Studies) was recently featured in a story for the Jackson School Report on the impact of FLAS fellowships at UW and beyond. “FLAS has been an indispensable component of my collegiate career for two main reasons: It has given

On January 19, 2023, the South Asia Center hosted a lecture on the Rise of Authoritarianism and Communication Policy in Bangladesh from Fahmidul Haq, a public intellectual, activist, and Visiting Professor of Experimental Humanities at Bard College. Abstract: Authoritarianism is growing across the world and South Asia is no exception. The rise of one party