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South Asian Studies Courses

Courses relating to South Asia on offer at Yale during the current or upcoming semester are listed below. For detailed course descriptions, visit Yale Course Search.

Fall 2026

South Asian Studies (SAST) Courses

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

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

Hindu Worlds Through Narratives
SAST 2710/5710, RLST 3310/6610, ER&M 2661/6671, TDPS 2034 | Shiva Sai Ram Urella

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

Buddhism Through Storytelling and Narratives
SAST 3730 | RLST 3265 | Marta Sanvido
 

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

Feminist and Queer Histories of Modern South Asia
SAST 4200, HIST 3467, ER&M 3576, WGSS 3467 | Jiya Pandya

The Novel and the Nation: Reading India in Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy 
SAST 4740, ENGL 4838, HIST 3441 | Rohit De and Priyasha Mukhopadhyay

Drama in Diaspora: South Asian American Theater and Performance
SAST 4750, AMST 3350, ER&M 3519, TDPS 3029 | Shilarna Stokes

 

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 Poetry and Drama
SKRT 1600/5600 | 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.