Cornell South Asia Program

08/30/2026

Our first seminar of the semester is by our new Director, Robert Travers (History, Cornell University): "S*x, Lies and the Company State: An Indo-Persian Counter-History of the Early British Empire in India" on Monday, August 31 at 12:15pm in G08 Uris Hall. Details at https://events.cornell.edu/event/sex-lies-and-the-company

08/28/2026

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08/19/2026

We're thrilled to announce our Fall 2026 Events Calendar! We are hosting an exciting series of events, which typically meet at 12:15 pm Mondays in G08 Uris Hall and are all open to the public, as detailed in our online calendar at https://new.express.adobe.com/webpage/BDeRNp91OaHvV.

This semester features presentations on India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and more, including the 16th Annual Tagore Lecture by poet/critic Vidyan Ravinthiran and an A. D. White Professor-at-Large Lecture by journalist P. Sainath. We will have a range of opportunities for Cornell students to participate in several workshops, and to meet with SAP Seminar speakers. We’ll share registration information for those activities later this month.

08/17/2026

New Fall 2026 course! ASIAN 3023/RELST 3023 "Partition: Violence, Citizenship, and the Making of Modern South Asia," taught by SAP Visiting Scholar Sadia Mahmood at Asian Studies at Cornell & Cornell University Religious Studies. Details at https://classes.cornell.edu/browse/roster/FA26/class/ASIAN/3023

08/05/2026

We're excited to announce that Robert Travers, Professor of History, is the new Director of the South Asia Program.

Find out more about his recent research when he delivers the first of this fall's SAP seminars, "S*x, Lies and the Company State: An Indo-Persian Counter-History of the Early British Empire in India" on Monday, August 31. Details at: https://events.cornell.edu/event/sex-lies-and-the-company

08/03/2026

Hey Cornell graduate students! Want to work at the South Asia Program this year? Details and application at https://www.myworkday.com/cornell/d/inst/9925$108800/rel-task/2998$16774.htmld

07/07/2026

"Cosmos", a new exhibit by SAP Faculty Iftikhar Dadi & Elizabeth Dadi at Jhaveri Contemporary Gallery, Mumbai opens Thursday 9 July and runs through 13 August.

06/29/2026

Congratulations to SAP graduate student Praveen Tilakaratne for being a participant in the Indian Ocean Writers Residency this month!

TAP IS DELIGHTED TO ANNOUNCE THE AWARDEES OF THE INDIAN OCEAN WRITERS' RESIDENCY 2026

06/16/2026

Karen L. Donoghue, Nehru-Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow at SAP (on the left in the first photo), conducted a two-day mini-exhibition at the North America Mizo Christian Fellowship conference in Frederick, Maryland, in May 2026, to introduce her research on the Mizo diaspora to a large gathering of Mizo community members from across the United States

06/09/2026

"Majority/Minority Politics in South Asia," an essay collection, co-edited by Mohsin Bhat and Natasha Raheja, was just published in Borderlines / /خُطُوط صَدْع , arising from a 2025 workshop at Cornell. Read more at: https://borderlines-cssaame.org/posts?tag=Majority/Minority%20Politics%20in%20South%20Asia