Northwestern. Brown. Dartmouth. Columbia. The South Asia Institute (SAI) coordinates activities at Columbia University that relate to study of the countries of Bangladesh, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, as well as related areas such as Afghanistan, Bhutan, and Burma. The Institute organizes conferences, seminars, film screenings, lecture series and brown bag talks that bring together faculty and students with diverse interests and backgrounds. SAI partners with departments, centers, and institutes at Columbia, and works with South Asia groups on campus and off, in order to reach new audiences and facilitate an exchange of knowledge.
Undergraduate and graduate students may study South Asia in a variety of degree programs across the university, and have access to the one of the oldest and largest South Asia collections in the country through the Columbia Libraries. The Institute's outreach activities provide a broad range of resources for K-12 teachers interested in South Asia. Faculty. Upenn. Stanford. Yale. Berkeley. Harvard. Princeton. Established in 2007, the Program in South Asian Studies offers students in any department of Princeton University the methodological and theoretical tools to study the political, economic, social, and religious institutions of India and Pakistan.
The program 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 (in particular Bangladesh and Sri Lanka) and the rest of the world. The program approaches the complexity of the South Asian past and present from a wide range of different disciplinary perspectives, hoping to foster lively intellectual exchanges on issues related to the plural configurations of “modernity” in the global context. The program endeavors to provide a forum for student and faculty interactions, both social and intellectual, and promotes South Asian cultural events.