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Fall 2025 SAST Courses

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

 

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.