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Fall 2025 SAST Courses

Language Courses

Elementary Hindi I 
HNDI 1100/5100 | Swapna Sharma

Intermediate Hindi I
HNDI 1300/5300 | Mansi Bajaj

Accelerated Hindi I 
HNDI 1320/5320 | Mansi Bajaj

Advanced Hindi I 
HNDI 1500/5500 | Swapna Sharma

Introductory Sanskrit I 
SKRT 1100/5100, LING 1150/5150 | Aleksandar Uskokov

Intermediate Sanskrit I 
SKRT 1300/5300, LING 1380/5380 | Aleksandar Uskokov

Advanced Sanskrit: Readings in Philosophy and Aesthetics 
SKRT 1500/5500 | Aleksandar Uskokov

Elementary Telugu I 
TLGU 1100/5100 | Shiva Sai Ram Urella

Intermediate Telugu I 
TLGU 1300/5300 | Shiva Sai Ram Urella

 
*Additional language courses including Bengali, Nepali, Punjabi, Sinhala, Tamil, and Classical and Modern Tibetan offered through the Shared Course Initiative with Cornell and Columbia.
 

South Asian Studies (SAST) Courses

History of Indian Ocean Crossings
SAST 0210, HIST 0737 | Nurfadzilah Yahaya

Buddhist Thought: The Foundations 
SAST 2610, RLST 1270, HUMS 4501, PHIL 1118 | Eric Greene

Digital War 
SAST 2620, AMST 3303, ER&M 3530, FILM 2980 | Madiha Tahir

Philosopher Queens of Hinduism and Buddhism 
SAST 2690, RLST 2820 | Sonam Kachru

In Ordinary Fashion 
SAST 3030, ANTH 4833 | Jane Lynch

Mobile South Asians and the Global Legal Order 
SAST 3340, HIST 3461, ER&M 3633 | Rohit De

National Security in India in the Twenty-first Century 
SAST 3450, PLSC 3108 | Sushant Singh

The Politics of Contemporary India
SAST 3480, PLSC 3469 | Adam Auerbach

Health, Medicine and Science in Modern South Asia 
SAST 3646, HSHM 4740, HIST 3415 | Gourav Krishna Nandi

When Was Modernism in South Asia?
SAST 3650, HSAR 3350 | Kaitlin Emmanuel

Modern South Asian Histories of the Body
SAST 3680, HIST 3419, WGSS 3419 | Jiya Pandya

Religion, Place, and Space 
SAST 3760, ANTH 2252, RLST 3300 | Harini Kumar

Secularisms
SAST 4600/5600, RLST 4180/5180 | Supriya Gandhi

Readings in South Asia: Across the Disciplines 
SAST 8200, HIST 8600 | Sunil Amrith and Rohit De 
 

Other Courses Relating to South Asia

Nation and Empire in British Art 
HSAR 0024 | Tim Barringer

Pacific Bridges: Asian Diasporas Across Latin America 
LAST 2605, SPAN 4605 | Inês Forjaz de Lacerda and Anibal González-Pérez

Self-Determination, Secession & Accommodation 
GLBL 4405, PLSC 3456 | Maria Jose Hierro

Genealogies of the Modern State
PLSC 6235 | Nazmul Sultan

Edmund Burke and the Age of Empire 
ENGL 6721, PLSC 6720 | David Bromwich