South Asia Archives - Association for Asian Studies

“Cultivating the Humanities and Social Sciences and Supporting Under-represented Scholars of Asia” 2022-2023 Grantees

02/08/2023 by Asia Now AAS Member Matters, Announcement, South Asia, Southeast Asia

In partnership with Sweden, the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) has launched a four-year initiative to help reduce the social and economic vulnerabilities of Southeast and South Asian low and lower-middle income countries. The “Cultivating the Humanities and Social Sciences and Supporting Under-Represented Scholars of Asia” (CHSS) project aims at strengthening the research capacity of […]

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Call for Applications: 2022-2023 Cultivating the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Grants

07/21/2022 by Asia Now Field Notes, Announcement, Call for Proposals, South Asia, Southeast Asia

The Cultivating the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Grants are made possible thanks to the generous support of Sweden. This grant program is part of a new collaborative transnational project that aims at enhancing the research capabilities of scholars and local institutions, especially in post-conflict and conflict areas, while helping to reduce the social and […]

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#AsiaNow Speaks with Benjamin D. Hopkins

07/07/2022 by Asia Now Books, 2022 Book Prizes, Afghanistan, History, India, South Asia

Benjamin Hopkins is a professor of history and international affairs at the George Washington University and author of Ruling the Savage Periphery: Frontier Governance and the Making of the Modern State, published by Harvard University Press and winner of the 2022 AAS Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Prize. To begin with, please tell us what your book […]

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#AsiaNow Speaks with Durba Mitra

05/31/2022 by Asia Now Books, 2022 Book Prizes, Gender, History, India, South Asia

Durba Mitra is Associate Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University and author of Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought, published by Princeton University Press and winner of the 2022 AAS Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize. To begin with, please tell us what your book […]

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Cultivating the Humanities and Social Sciences and Supporting Under-represented Scholars of Asia: Sweden Awards the Association for Asian Studies $2.68 Million

05/23/2022 by Asia Now AAS Member Matters, Announcement, South Asia, Southeast Asia

With support from Sweden, the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) will coordinate a new $2.68-million project to support scholars located in economically disadvantaged regions of South and Southeast Asia. The project will focus on support for scholars from conflict areas and post-conflict countries, and particularly on junior faculty, graduate students, senior and independent scholars, women, […]

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Member Spotlight: Rashmi Sadana

02/02/2022 by Asia Now Member Spotlight, Anthropology, India, South Asia

Rashmi Sadana is Associate Professor of Anthropology at George Mason University. She is an anthropologist and works primarily in India. Why did you join AAS and why would you recommend AAS to your colleagues? It’s great to be connected to a place-based community of scholars, especially as many of us are based far from our […]

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Interview: Shah Mahmoud Hanifi on Histories of Afghanistan

09/17/2021 by William Warner Field Notes, Afghanistan, History, South Asia

With the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Kabul at the end of August and the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Afghanistan has recently received a great deal of attention in the wider news media. In that context, our new Membership Manager, Bill Warner, reached out to AAS member Shah Mahmoud Hanifi, professor of […]

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AAS Statement on the Dismantling Global Hindutva Conference

09/10/2021 by Asia Now AAS Statements, Higher Education, South Asia

September 10, 2021 Statement by the Association for Asian Studies Board of Directors In keeping with its commitment to academic freedom, the AAS supports the “Dismantling Global Hindutva: Multidisciplinary Perspectives” conference scheduled for September 10-12 and condemns the harassment and intimidation of conference participants, organizers, and co-sponsors. We understand that Hindutva is a majoritarian ideological doctrine that conflates a limited interpretation of […]

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AAS Statement on Proposed Demolition of the Annex of the National Archives in Delhi

05/28/2021 by Asia Now AAS Statements, History, India, South Asia

May 28, 2021Issued by the AAS Board of Directors AAS expresses grave concern at the recent announcement regarding the demolition of the Annex of the National Archives in Delhi. We urge the Government of India to disclose its plans for safely transferring held documents and artifacts, their intermediate and long-term storage, and their availability to […]

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Michael O’Sullivan on Vernacular Capitalism and Intellectual History

05/27/2021 by Journal of Asian Studies Journal of Asian Studies, China, East Asia, History, India, JAS Interviews, South Asia

Michael O’Sullivan is a Junior Research Fellow in the Center for History and Economics at Harvard University and author of “Vernacular Capitalism and Intellectual History in a Gujarati Account of China, 1860–68,” which appears in the May 2021 issue of the Journal of Asian Studies. O’Sullivan’s article discusses a travelogue published in 1868 by Damodar […]

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Durba Mitra on the Sexuality of Endogamy

03/19/2021 by Journal of Asian Studies Journal of Asian Studies, History, India, JAS Interviews, South Asia

Durba Mitra, assistant professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and the Carol K. Pforzheimer Assistant Professor at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, is author of “‘Surplus Woman’: Female Sexuality and the Concept of Endogamy” published in the February 2021 issue of the Journal of Asian Studies. Mitra’s first book, Indian Sex Life: Sexuality […]

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“Modernization” and Agrarian Development in India

10/07/2020 by Journal of Asian Studies Journal of Asian Studies, Agrarian Studies, History, India, JAS Interviews, South Asia

This is Number 7 in the “JAS Author Interviews” series at #AsiaNow. Click here to see all posts in the series. The August 2020 issue of the Journal of Asian Studies includes “‘Modernization’ and Agrarian Development in India, 1912–52,” a research article by historian Prakash Kumar (Pennsylvania State University). Drawing from his current book project, in this […]

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Statement on Collection Development, Access, and Equity in the Time of COVID-19

09/28/2020 by Asia Now AAS Statements, Higher Education, South Asia

Issued by the Committee on South Asian Libraries and Documentation on July 17, 2020 and endorsed by the AAS Board of Directors on September 28, 2020. The Committee on South Asian Libraries and Documentation (CONSALD) recognizes the tremendous work of the Collection Development and Equity in the Time of Covid-19 Task Force in the crafting […]

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Member Spotlight: Kishor K. Podh

09/16/2020 by Asia Now Member Spotlight, Agrarian Studies, India, Sociology, South Asia

Kishor K. Podh is a Ph.D. Scholar at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He has been a member of the Association for Asian Studies since 2019. What is your discipline and country (or countries) of interest? I received academic training in Sociology. My area of interest […]

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My Son’s Inheritance: India’s Invisible Violence

08/27/2020 by Asia Now Books, History, India, South Asia

Aparna Vaidik is Associate Professor of History at Ashoka University, India and author of My Son’s Inheritance: A Secret History of Lynching and Blood Justice in India (Aleph, 2020). In the essay below, Vaidik discusses the book’s origins and the questions she seeks to address, as well as her decision to write it for a […]

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#AsiaNow Speaks with Sally Sutherland Goldman and Robert Goldman

03/04/2020 by Asia Now Books, 2020 Book Prizes, India, Literature, South Asia, Translation

Dr. Sally Sutherland Goldman is Senior Lecturer in Sanskrit and Dr. Robert Goldman is William and Catherine Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Sanskrit at the University of California at Berkeley. They are the authors of The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India, Volume VII: Uttarakāṇḍa, published by Princeton University Press (2017) and winners of […]

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Elizabeth Chatterjee on “The Asian Anthropocene: Electricity and Fossil Developmentalism”

02/24/2020 by Journal of Asian Studies Journal of Asian Studies, History, India, JAS Interviews, South Asia

This is Number 5 in the “JAS Author Interviews” series at #AsiaNow. Click here to see all posts in the series. Elizabeth Chatterjee is Lecturer in Regional and Comparative Politics at Queen Mary University of London. Chatterjee’s article, “The Asian Anthropocene: Electricity and Fossil Developmentalism,” appears in the February 2020 issue of the Journal of Asian Studies. […]

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Rethinking India’s Eighteenth Century, from the Perspective of Twentieth-Century Japan

02/21/2020 by Asia Now Field Notes, Conference Report, History, India, South Asia

By Weijia Vicky Shen, University of Pittsburgh On November 8, 2019, I attended the “Rethinking India’s Eighteenth Century” workshop at the University of Pittsburgh. The day-long gathering began with me sitting uncomfortably at a round table in the Humanities Center, surrounded by established scholars of South Asia. My anxiety stemmed in part from being the […]

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#AsiaNow Speaks with Ananya Chakravarti

02/19/2020 by Asia Now Books, 2020 Book Prizes, History, India, Religion, South Asia

Ananya Chakravarti is Associate Professor of History, Georgetown University and author of The Empire of Apostles: Religion, Accommodatio and the Imagination of Empire in Early Modern Brazil and India, published by Oxford University Press and recipient of an honorable mention for the 2020 AAS Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize. To begin with, please tell us […]

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AAS Statement on Academic Conditions in India

02/07/2020 by Asia Now AAS Statements, Academia, India, South Asia

The Association for Asian Studies expresses its grave concern about a series of sustained challenges to academic freedom in India. Students and scholars throughout the country are at risk, and conditions for academic inquiry and collaboration are rapidly deteriorating. In August 2019, the Government of India unilaterally repealed Kashmir’s semi-autonomous status, as embodied in Article […]

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