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Spring 2025 SAST Courses

Language Courses:

Elementary Hindi II
HNDI 120/520 | Mansi Bajaj

Intermediate Hindi II
HNDI 140/540 | Mansi Bajaj

Accelerated Hindi II
HNDI 142/542 | Mansi Bajaj

India's Historical Journey: From the Maurya Empire to the Mughal Era
HNDI 151/551 | Swapna Sharma

Modern Hindi Literature
HNDI 160/560 | Swapna Sharma

Introductory Sanskrit II
SKRT 120/520, LING 125/525 | Aleksandar Uskokov

The Bhagavad-Gita
SKRT 142/542 | Aleksandar Uskokov

Advanced Sanskrit: Readings in Wordly Arts and Sciences
SKRT 151/551 | Christopher Minkowski

 

South Asian Studies (SAST) Courses:

India and Pakistan since 1947
SAST 224, HIST 396 | Rohit De

Music of South Asia
SAST 259, MUSI 280 | Ameera Nimjee

Astrology in India
SAST 264, NELC 136, HSHM 231, RLST 225 | Christopher Minkowski

In Ordinary Fashion
SAST 303, ANTH 383 | Jane Lynch

Peril and Possibility in the South Asian City
SAST 308, ANTH 318, URBN 412 | Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan

Delightful Dangers: Cultures of Consumption in South Asia (1850-1945)
SAST 328, HIST 331, URBN 334, WGSS 329 | Siddhartha Chandra Mukherjee

Mutual Dependence: Journalism and Democracy in South Asia
SAST 347 | Sushant Singh

Music and Well-Being: A Sound Lab of Sacred Music
SAST 357, MUSI 116 | Suhail Yusuf

From Yajnavalkya to Schopenhauer: The Philosophy of the Upanishads
SAST 370/570, RLST 240/540 | Aleksandar Uskokov

Water and Society: Culture, Life, and Values
SAST 383, ANTH 373 | Lav Kanoi

Exploring South Indian Rhythmic Design
SAST 473, MUSI 406 | Fugan Dineen

Law and Society in Modern South Asia
SAST 901, HIST 903 | Rohit De 
 

Other Courses Relating to South Asia:

Words and Whys: Premodern South Asian and Contemporary Readings in Metaphysics and Language
PHIL 362/562 | Michael Della Rocca and Angela Vettikkal
 
Tibet in the Modern World—A 20th Century History
EAST 423, HIST 385 | Ugyan Choedup
 
GSE India: Global Social Entrepreneurship
MGT 529, GLBL 7261 | Tony Sheldon
 
Adaptive Reuse in Karachi: History, Documentation, & Intervention
HSAR 845, ARCH 3307 | Kishwar Rizvi and Sunil Bald