Title VI National Resource Centers, country information, scholar networks, South Asia student associations, and more. Check the sidemenu for details.
National Resource Centers
Penn is Home to Five National Resource Centers:
- The African Studies Center
- The Center for East Asian Studies
- The Middle East Center
- The South Asia Center
- Penn Lauder CIBER (Center for International Business Education and Research)
South Asia Centers
The US Department of Education’s International Education Programs Service supports nine National Resource Centers for the study of South Asia across the nation:
- The Southern Asian Institute at Columbia University
- The Cornell University & Syracuse University Consortium
- The Triangle South Asia Consortium of Duke University, North Carolina State University, & University of North Carolina
- The Center for South Asia Studies at University of California, Berkeley
- The Center for South Asian Studies at University of Chicago
- The South Asia Center at University of Pennsylvania
- The South Asia Institute at University of Texas
- The South Asia Center at University of Washington
- The Center for South Asia at University of Wisconsin, Madison
South Asian Student Associations
- Bryn Mawr College South Asian Women's Association, contact Namita Johri
- Swarthmore South Asian Association DESHI
- Drexel Indian Students’ Association (DISHA), contact Dhruv Salhotra, President, DISHA, Drexel University
- Garam Chai
- Haverford College South Asian Student's Association
- Network of Indian Professionals
- PAKSA — Pakistan Student Association at Drexel
- Pragathi at Drexel
- Rutger's University South Asia Related Organizations
- Indian Students Association at Temple University
- Pakistan Students Association at Temple University
- Variety of Indian Cultural Expressions (V.O.I.C.E), contact Bhavesh Joshi
Country Information
- Travel & General Country information
- CDC Health information for travel to South Asia
- Country Studies at the Library of Congress
- Afghanistan
- Bangladesh
- Bhutan
- India
- Nepal
- Pakistan
- Sri Lanka
- Tibet, Autonomous Region of
Scholar Network
- American Institute of Afghanistan Studies
- American Institute for Bangladesh Studies
- American Institute for Indian Studies
- American Institute for Pakistan Studies
- American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies
General Information
- South Asia Initiative at Harvard
- SARAI — South Asia Resource Access on the Internet
- Digital South Asia Library — Images, maps and a host of other information
- Maps at the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
- Slide show of Karimpur Village showcasing changes in rural India
- Kamat’s Potpourri of Topics on Indian Society & Culture
- Maps of South Asia — an organized collection
Literature & Language
- South Asia Language Resource Center
- South Asian Languages at the University of Pennsylvania
- The Cornell University
- The South Asian Literary Recordings Project: Excerpts from South Asian language books (fiction) read by authors
- South Asia Summer Language Institute (SASLI)
- Boipara: An Online Archive of Bengali Literature
- Gujarati-English Dictionary
- Web based Hindi Materials
- Children's Books from Bengal: A Documentation
