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  • K-16 Outreach

    The South Asia Center provides professional development opportunties to K-12 teachers, our Affilaited Faculty, and their classrooms.

  • Student Opportunities

    The South Asia Center offers student travel opportunities through our C.U. In India course series and Summer Research Internships across 5 countries.

Welcome

Penn's South Asia Center, in conjunction with the Center for the Advanced Study of India and the Department of South Asia Studies, has kept the University of Pennsylvania at the leading edge of scholarship relating to South Asia.

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Upcoming Events



Expert Fixers: Bureaucratic Informality, Brokerage, and the Politics of Land in Mumbai

CASI Seminar Series Spring 2023
Feb 2, 2023 at - | PCPSE Building, Suite 230 (133 South 36th St, Philadelphia)

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UPIASI Presents: Partition through popular media

Feb 10, 2023 at - | Virtual event

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Penn Museum presents: Conversation w/ Dr. Harjant Gill

Followed by Film Screenings via Penn Museum
Dr. Harjant Gill
Feb 12, 2023 at - | Virtual Event

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South Asia at Penn
Center for the Advanced Study of India

Founded in 1992, the Center for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania is the first research institution in the United States dedicated to the study of contemporary India. A national resource, it fills an urgent need for objective knowledge of India's politics and society, rapidly changing economy, and transformation as both an ancient civilization and major contemporary power.
Department of South Asia Studies

The study of South Asia at Penn has a tradition stretching back over a hundred years. The department has trained generations of leaders in the field and remains one of the most distinguished places to study South Asia in the United States. Today the South Asia Studies Department is a close-knit community of interdisciplinary scholars that combines expertise in the languages, literatures, histories, and cultures of South Asia.