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Spring 2026 SAST Courses

South Asian Studies (SAST) Courses

British Raj and Indian Nation
SAST 2230, HIST 2414 | Rohit De

Mughal India, 1500-1800 
SAST 2579, RLST 1800, HIST 1442 | Supriya Gandhi

Indian Philosophy: Beginnings and Foundations
SAST 2580/5280, RLST 2223/5240, PHIL 2223 | Aleksandar Uskokov

Corporations & Communities
SAST 3040, ANTH 3858 | Jane Lynch

Histories of Capitalism in Modern Asia
SAST 3200, HIST 3784 | Kelvin Ng
 

The Indian Experiment with Democracy
SAST 3240, HIST 2441, PLSC 3475 | Ornit Shani

Being and Becoming Hindu: Hinduism through Ethnography
SAST 3370, ANTH 3770, RLST 3565 | Shiva Sai Ram Urella

Mutual Dependence: Journalism and Democracy in South Asia
SAST 3470, GLBL Elective | Sushant Singh

Mystical Dimensions of Islamic Art
SAST 3670, HSAR 4391, MMES 3386, ARCH 3119 | Kishwar Rizvi

Gods and Robots
SAST 3690, RLST 3105, PHIL 3105 | Sonam Kachru 

The Middle Way (Madhyamaka)
SAST 3710, RLST 3200, HUMS 4539, PHIL 3321 | Sonam Kachru

Pop South Asia
SAST 3740, HSAR 4428 | Kaitlin Emmanuel

Tibetan Buddhism
SAST 3720, EAST 4601, RLST 3430 | Tulku Ngawang Sonam

Water and Society: Culture, Life, and Values
SAST 3830, ANTH 3873, EVST 3873 | Lav Kanoi

Exploring South Indian Rhythmic Design
SAST 4730, MUSI 4106 | Fugan Dineen

The South Asian Novel Now
SAST 4760, ENGL 4839, CPLT 4839 | Priyasha Mukhopadhyay

Artists and the East India Company
SAST 5640, HSAR 6680 | Timothy Barringer
 

Other Courses Relating to South Asia

History of Dutch Empire
HIST 1701 | Nurfadzilah Yahaya
 
Labs and Landscapes of the Green Revolution
ARCH 5004, ENV 638 | Anthony Acciavatti
 

Language Courses

Elementary Hindi II
HNDI 1200/5200 | Swapna Sharma 

Intermediate Hindi II
HNDI 1400/5400 | Mansi Bajaj 

Accelerated Hindi II
HNDI 1420/5420 | Mansi Bajaj 

Internal Migration and Hindi in Diaspora
HNDI 1560/5560 | Swapna Sharma 

Introductory Sanskrit II
SKRT 1200/5200, LING 1250/5250 | Aleksandar Uskokov 

Introduction to Vedic Sanskrit
SKRT 1410/5410, LING 1580/5580, SAST 3590 | Aleksandar Uskokov and Christopher Minkowski

Graduate Directed Readings in Sanskrit
SKRT 5570 | Christopher Minkowski

Elementary Telugu II
TLGU 1200/5200 | Shiva Sai Ram Urella

Intermediate Telugu II
TLGU 1400/5400 | 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.