Academic Institutions around the World, connected to research on South Asia

Aalborg University

‡ Center for TeleInfraStruktur, coordinating the EC funded ”Erasmus Mundus Mobility for Life” consortium (EMECW lot 11 South Asia Regional, 2008), formed by 8 universities in Europe, and 11 universitites in Asia (Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, Asian University for Women, and Chittagong University, Bangladesh; Royal University of Bhutan; Institute of Engineering at Tribhuvan University, Nepal; Mehran University of Engineering & Technology in Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakistan; Kabul University, Afghanistan; University of Calcutta, and Sinhgad Institute of Technology in Lona, Maharashtra, India; Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia; and Mae Fah Luang University, Thailand). Consortium web page. 

 ‡  Center for User Driven Innovation, Learning and Design, Department of Communication 

Aarhus University

‡ Contemporary India Study Centre Aarhus (CISCA), Institute of History and Area Studies (IHO). Inaugurated in February 2010, it is one of the India-EU Study Centres Programme (IESCP) that was initiated by the European Commission in 2008 

‡ Department of Anthropology and Ethnography, Institute for Anthropology, Archaeology and Linguistics, Moesgård

‡ Danish Pluralism Project, Centre for Multireligious Studies, Faculty of Theology

‡ Department of East Asian Studies (including South Asian Studies), Institute of History and Area Studies

University of Copenhagen

‡ Asian Dynamics Initiative (ADI), joint initiative by the Faculties of Social Sciences and the Humanities

‡ Centre of Global South Asian Studies

- The Danish Network for Pakistan Studies

‡ Institute of Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences

‡ Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, Faculty of Humanities.
Includes the Asian Section; the Carsten Niebuhr Section; the Centre for Comparative Cultural Studies; and History of Religions Section

‡ Danish Development Research Network (DDRN), Department of Geography and Geology. Network launched in 2007 after a merge between the Research Network for Environment and Development (ReNED), the Research Network for Governance, Economic Policy and Public Administration (GEPPA), and the Danish Network for Agricultural Research for Development (NETARD). The networks gathers more than 2000 researchers and practictioners from Denmark and many other countries around the globe.

‡ Centre for Medical Parasitology (CMP)

‡ Institute of Public Health

‡ Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS)

• Support Program for Asian Studies, SUPRA

• Asian Century Research School, ACRSN, initiated in 2005. Aimed at strengthening the Nordic Asian studies environment by facilitating new and innovative research fields as well as high quality research (PhD) training. Facilitating the creation of a number of research clusters, such as:

– Gendering Asia Network

Copenhagen Business School (CBS)

‡ Asia Research Centre

‡ Department of International Economics and Management

Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Copenhagen

‡ Association of Development Researchers in Denmark (FAU)

The Association of Development Researchers in Denmark (FAU), Copenhagen

Roskilde University (RUC)

‡ Department of Society and Globalisation

– Graduate School of International Development Studies

NORWAY

University of Bergen
‡ Department of the History of Religions, Institute of Classics, Russian and the History of Religions (IKRR)

‡ Unifob Global (Global Research at the University of Bergen)

Christian Michelsen Institute (CMI), Bergen

‡ Norsk Forening for Utviklingsforskning (NFU)

‡ South Asia Development Studies

University of Oslo

‡ Nettverk for Asiastudier (Network for Asian Studies)

‡ Norsk Forum for Sør-Asia (NoFSA)

‡ Institute of Cultural Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS)

‡ Institute for Archaeology, Conservation and Historical Studies (IAKH)

‡ Centre for Development and Environment (SUM), University of Oslo

– Norwegian Network for Asian Studies (Nettverk for Asiastudier), Norwegian research network for the study and research about the Asian region, located at SUM.

‡ Network for Research and Evaluation on Education and Development (NETREED)

‡ Cultural Complexity in the New Norway, Strategic research programme, University of Oslo. Interdisciplinary research programme involving five faculties, established in 2004.

Oslo University College

‡ Centre for International Education (LINS)

‡ KULTURSTUDIER (Culture Studies). Organisation run by a group of social scientists and humanists, providing the opportunity to combine studies of high academic standard in an environment that offers great learning experiences in third world countries, including India.

– Peace and Conflict Studies programme in Pondicherry, India

Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), Oslo

‡ Department of Security and Conflict Management

International Peace Research Institute (PRIO), Oslo

Tromsø University

‡ Centre for Environment and Development Studies (SEMUT)

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim

‡ Programme for Development Cooperation

Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås

‡ Department of International Environment and Development Studies (NORAGRIC)

FINLAND

University of Helsinki

‡ Department of World Cultures. Launched on 1 January 2010, comprising four former departments (Institute for Asian and African Studies, the Dept. of Classical Philology, the Renvall Institute and the Dept. of Comparative Religion. 

– South Asian Studies

‡ Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology

‡ Institute of Development Studies

World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University, (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki

Department of Comparative Religion, Åbo Akademi, Åbo/Turku

ICELAND
 

Asíuver Íslands, ASÍS (The Icelandic Centre for Asian Studies), University of Akureyri
 

GREAT BRITAIN

Brittish Association for Pakistan Studies, Bath College of Higher Education

Scottish Centre for Himalayan Studies, University of Aberdeen

University of Bath

‡ Centre for Development Studies (CDS)

‡ Wellbeing in Developing Countries (WeD). Multidisciplinary research group at CDS, funded by the British Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Research is carried out in four developing countries, among them Bangladesh, where collaboration is ongoing with:

• The Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS)
• The Institute for Development Policy Analysis and Advocacy, PROSHIKA; and
• The Social and Behavioural Sciences Unit, Public Health Sciences Division, ICDDR,B Centre for Health & Population Research.

‡ Department of Economics and International Development (DEID)

University of Bradford

‡ British Association for South Asian Studies, BASAS

‡ South Asian Strategic Stability Unit (SASSU), Dept. of Peace Studies

University of Sussex, Brighton

‡ Culture Development and Environment Centre (CDE)/Development Studies

‡ Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation & Poverty

‡ Poverty Research Unit, PRU

‡ Sussex Centre for Migration Research

‡ Centre for World Environmental History

‡ Institute of Development Studies, (IDS), University of Sussex

Centre for Buddhist Studies, Dept. of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Bristol

University of Cambridge

‡ Centre of South Asian Studies

‡ South Asian Studies, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Queen’s College 

‡ Digital Himalaya

Centre for South Asian Studies, Coventry Business School, Coventry University

South Asian Studies at Duke University, Durham

Centre for South Asian Studies, School of Social & Political Studies, University of Edinburgh

Afghanistan Music Unit (AMU), Music Department, Goldsmiths College, University of London

Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC), London. From its London campus, AKU-ISMC offers a two-year, full-time Master’s degree in Muslim Cultures. More information (as a pdf-file)

Department of Asia, British Museum, London

Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR), London

King’s College, London

‡ King’s India Institute, launched on 26 January 2012

‡ Tagore Centre for Global Thought

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London

‡ SACREDMEDIACOW, independent postgraduate collective on Indian media research and production ‡ Centre for Media and Film, major new initiative in the study of non-Western media and film ‡ Centre for Music and Dance Performance Research ‡ Centre for Development, Policy and Research (CDPR) ‡ Centre of South Asian Studies ‡ Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies ‡ Centre for Gender Studies ‡ Centre of Gender & Religions Research ‡ Centre for Ethnic Minority Studies ‡ Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy ‡ Centre for Law & Conflict ‡ Centre of Colonialism, Empire and International Law (CCEIL) ‡ Law, Environment and Development Centre (LEDC) ‡ Centre Of Buddhist Studies ‡ Centre of Islamic Studies ‡ Centre of Jaina Studies ‡ Centre of Eastern and Orthodox Christianity ‡ SOAS Language Centre. Offers courses in Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Panjabi, Sanskrit, Sinhala, Tamil, and Urdu ‡ Centre of Contemporary Central Asia & the Caucasus ‡ Department of the Study of Religions ‡ SOAS Food Studies Centre

Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London. The Centre has been a hub of activity for the International Association for the Study of Traditional Asian Medicine (IASTAM), but closed down on 31 May 2010. 

London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

‡ Asia Research Centre

‡ Development Studies Institute (DESTIN),

‡ Crisis States Research Centre. Established in 2001 with the support of the Dept for International Development (DFID) of the UK government, initially to undertake research on ”Crisis and Breakdown in the Developing World”.

Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. Founded by His Highness the Aga Khan to promote scholarship and learning on Islam, with an emphasis on Shi‘ism in general and its Ismaili tariqah in particular.

International Institute for the Environment and Development (IIED), London

Asia Research Programme, Royal Institute of International Affairs/Chatham House, London

Overseas Development Institute, London. Britain's leading independent think-tank on international development and humanitarian issues.

Society for South Asian Studies (SAS), founded and grant-aided by the British Academy, London

Area Panel for South Asia, British Academy, London

India Media Centre, School of Media, Arts and Design (MAD), University of Westminster, London

Centre for Applied South Asian Studies (CASAS), Manchester

University of Manchester

‡ South Asian Studies, School of Arts, Histories & Cultures

‡ Sanskrit Tradition in the Modern World (STIMW), Dept. of Religions and Theology

‡ Brooks World Poverty Institute (BWPI)

Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies at the Open University, Milton Keynes

School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich

‡ International Development UEA, charitable company wholly owned by the University of East Anglia, managing the research, training and consultancy activities undertaken by faculty members of the School of Development Studies

University of Oxford

‡ Department of International Development/Queen Elizabeth House

– Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE)
– International Gender Studies Centre (IGS)
– International Migration Institute (IMI)
– Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI)
– Refugee Studies Centre (RSC)
– Young Lives Research Centre

‡ Bodleian Library (incl. Department of Oriental Collections/Indian Institute Library)

‡ Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies

‡ Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies (OCHS) – previously Oxford Centre for Vaishnava and Hindu Studies.

‡ South and Inner Asia Studies, Faculty of Oriental Studies

‡ Contemporary South Asia Studies Programme, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies

‡ South Asian Studies Programme, Asian Studies Centre, S:t Anthony’s College

Asia-Pacific Population Research in Ageing (APPRA), Oxford Institute of Ageing

Institute of Jainology, Perivale, Greenford, Middlesex

Agricultural Extension and Rural Development Department (AERDD), University of Reading

Centre for Nepal Studies UK (CNSUK), Southampton

IRELAND

College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences/Study of Religions, University College of Cork (UCC)
Lectureship position established in 2011 for study of Contemporary South Asian Religions 

THE NETHERLANDS

Amsterdam School of Social Science Research, Amsterdam

Asian Studies in Amsterdam (ASiA), founded in 2001

India Instituut, Amsterdam

Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam

SEPHIS, South-South Exchange Programme for Research on the History of Development, Amsterdam

Transnational Institute, Amsterdam

International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Enschede

Institute of Indian Studies, Groningen

Institute of Social Studies, The Hague

Clingendael Asia Studies (CAS), Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael, The Hague

Leiden University

‡ International Institute of Asian Studies, IIAS

‡ Kern Institute (Department of Languages and Cultures of South and Central Asia)

‡ Research School of Asian, African, and Amerindian Studies, CNWS

• CNWS Working Group Afghanistan

International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM), Leiden. Established in 1998 by the University of Amsterdam, Leiden University, Utrecht University, and the Radboud University Nijmegen

Centre for International Development Issues; Radboud University, Nijmegen (till September 2004 called Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen)

Research school CERES, Utrecht. Unites development related research in six Dutch academic institutions – Utrecht University, University of Amsterdam, Agricultural University of Wageningen, Catholic University of Nijmegen, Free University (Amsterdam), and the Institute of Social Studies at The Hague.

 

BELGIUM

European Institute for Asian Studies, Brussels

United Nations University; Comparative Regional Integration Studies, Bruges

Ghent University

‡ Research Centre Vergelijkende Cultuurwetenschap

‡ Indology section, Dept. of Languages and Cultures of South and East Asia

‡ Department of Third World Studies

FRANCE

UFR Langues et Cultures Antiques, Université Charles-de-Gaulle, Lille

Société d’Activité et de Recherche sur les mondes Indiens (SARI), University of Cergy-Pontoise

d.u. de langue initiation sanskrit et civilisation indienne, Université de Lyon

Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud (CEIAS), Paris

École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO), Paris

‡ EFEO Centre in Pondicherry, India 

‡ EFEO Centre in Pune, India

Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), Paris

Sciences Po – Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris

‡ Centre for Asia and the Pacific

‡ Center for International Studies and Research (CERI)

– CERI Program for Peace and Human Security. Involved in collaboration with the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences at the University of Kabul, Afghanistan

École Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE), University of Paris 3 (Sorbonne Nouvelle)

‡ Research group on Iranian and Indian Worlds

‡ La Section des sciences historiques et philologique

Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH), funded by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, New Delhi, India

French Institute of Pondicherry (IFP), India. Research center of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, carries out research expertise and training missions in South and South-East Asia in the fields of Indology, Social Sciences and Ecology.

Milieux, Societes et Cultures en Himalaya (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/CNRS Himalaya Research Group), Villejuif Cedex

GERMANY

Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinArbeitskreis Asiatische Religionsgeschichte der Deutschen Vereinigung für Religionsgeschichte, AKAR, Universität Bayreuth

‡ Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften

– Seminar für Geschichte und Gesellschaft Südasiens / South Asia Studies Seminar

– Zentralasien-Seminar

– Humboldt India Project. Bringing together the South Asia competence of the Humboldt University 

Freie Universität, Berlin

‡ Kunsthistorisches Institut – Abteilung Kunstgeschichte Südasiens

‡ Institut für die Sprachen und Kulturen Südasiens

– Indoskript (in cooperation with Institut für Indologie und Südasienwissenschaften, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, see below)

‡ Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies

– Professorship in South Asian Islamic History

Zentrum Moderner Orient (Centre for Modern Oriental Studies), Berlin

Ruhr-Universität Bochum

‡ Institut für Entwicklungsforschung und Entwicklungspolitik

‡ Seminar für Orientalistik und Islamwissenschaften

University of Bonn (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität)

‡ Indologisches Seminar

‡ International Association for Ladakh studies (IALS)

‡ Abteilung für Asiatische und Islamische Kunstgeschichte

Asienhaus Essen – Zentrum für Information und Begegnung, Essen

Orientalisches Seminar, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg

Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen

‡ Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS)

– Dept. of Modern Indian History
– Dept. of Indian Economic Development (established in 2010)
– Dept. of Indian Religions (to be set up soon)
– Dept. of Society and Culture of Modern India (to be set up soon)
– Dept. of Anthropology of Public Health, with a regional focus on South Asia (starting 1 Aug 2011)

‡ Seminar für Indologie und Buddhismuskunde

Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg

‡ Seminar für Indologie, Institut für Altertumswissenschaften (Science of Antiquity)

‡ South Asia Seminar, Orientalisches Institut 

GIGA Institute for Asian Studies (IAS), German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg

GIGA Institute for Middle East Studies, Hamburg (includes research on Afghanistan and Pakistan)

Institut für Kultur und Geschichte Indiens und Tibets, Universität Hamburg

‡ Nepal-German Manuscript Preservation Project (NGMPP)
‡ Nepal Research Centre (NRC, Kathmandu)
‡ Centre for Tantric Studies
‡ Center for Buddhist Studies

Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg

‡ South Asia Institute

– Department of Anthropology
– Department of Development Economics
– Department of International Economics (Internationale Wirtschafts- und Entwicklungspolitik)
– Department of Geography
– Department of History
– Department of Classical Indology
– Department of Modern South Asian Studies (Languages and Literatures) (Abteilung Moderne Indologie)
– Department of Political Science

– South Asia Institute, New Delhi Branch Office
– South Asia Institute, Sri Lanka Office
– South Asia Institute, Kathmandu Office

‡ ”Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows” Cluster of Excellence

Seminar für Orientalistik, Abt. Indologie, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

Institut für Indologie und Tamilistik, Universität zu Köln

Institut für Indologie und Zentralasienwissenschaften, Universität Leipzig

Institut für Indologie, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz

Department of Indology and Tibetology, Philipps-Universität Marburg

Institut für Indologie und Tibetologie, Department für Asienstudien, Fakultät für Kulturwissenschaften, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Institut für Indologie, Universität Münster

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam

Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

‡ Abteilung für Ethnologie (Dept. of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology)

‡ Abteilung Indologie und Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft

‡ Abteilung für Orient- und Islamwissenschaft

KNOTEN WEIMAR (International Transfer Centre Environmental Technology), Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

 

SWITZERLAND

‡ NCCR North-South South Asia Regional Coordination Office, Kathmandu, Nepal

NCCR (National Centres of Competence in Research) North-South, innovative research programme in the fields of global change and sustainable development, jointly funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. Hosted by the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), Institute of Geography, University of Bern. 

‡ NCCR Nepal Research Group, partner of NCCR N-S, Kathmandu

‡ NCCR Pakistan Research Group, partner of NCCR N-S, Islamabad

Afghanistan Institut, Bubendorf

Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. Created in 2008 by the merger of the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Europe's oldest institute of international studies (founded in 1927), and the Graduate Institute of Development Studies, one of Europe's first institutes devoted to the study of development (founded in 1961). 

International Environmental Law Research Centre, Geneva. Independent, non-profit research organisation that also has an office in New Delhi, India

United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Geneva

Department of Oriental Languages and Cultures, Université de Lausanne

Universität Zürich

‡ Department of Geography

– Development Study Group (DSGZ)
– Human Geography Unit

‡ Indogermanisches Seminar, Abteilung für Indologie (Department of Indology)

‡ University Priority Research Programme ”Asia and Europe”

AUSTRIA

‡ Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Documentation of Inner and South Asian Cultural History (CIRDIS)

University of Vienna

CIRDIS is linked with the interdisciplinary programme for primary research on “The Cultural History of the Western Himalaya from the 8th Century” (CHWH), funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).

‡ Institut für Südasien-, Tibet- und Buddhismuskunde (ISTB)

Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia (IKGA), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna

 

ITALY

Indological section, Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità, University of Milan

Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Orientali, Università degli studi di Bologna

Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente, Rome

Il Dipartimento di Studi Orientali, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Rome

Cesmeo Istituto Internazionale di Studi Asiatici Avanzati, Università degli Studi di Torino

TOAsia, School of Political Science, University of Torino. Unit with a function to help coordinate the School’s institutional and academic activities focussing on contemporary China, India, and Middle East. 

Società Indologica ”Luigi Pio Tessitori”, Udine University

SPAIN

Centro de Estudios de Asia, Universidad de Valladolid

 

PORTUGAL

Department of Anthropology, Instituto Superior de Ciencias do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE) – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (IUL), Lisbon.
Runs an Master in Indian Studies programme in collaboration with Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, and Brown University, USA. More information. 

GREECE

Indo-Hellenic Society for Culture and Development (ELINEPA), Athens

 

CZECH REPUBLIC

‡ Seminar of Indian StudiesInstitute of South and Central Asia, Faculty of Arts, Univerzita Karlova, Prague

‡ Pandanus Homepage. Database of Indian Plant Names; Sanskrit e-texts; and Conference publications.

Oriental Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague

HUNGARY

Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

Institute for Political Science, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest

‡ Department of Indo-European Studies. Established already in 1873 with a strong focus on Indology.
 ICCR funded Tagore Research Scholarship established in 2007.

ROMANIA

Alexander Csoma de Körös Centre for Oriental Studies, Sapientia, Hungarian University of Transylvania, Miercurea Ciuc (Csíkszereda)

POLAND

Department of South Asian Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan

Department of Indology, Institute of Oriental Philology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow

Department of South Asian Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw

Centre for Contemporary India Research and Studies, Institute of International Relations, University of Warsaw

Department of Ethnology, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw

LITHUANIA

Centre of Oriental Studies, Vilnius University

 

RUSSIAN FEDERATION

‡ Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Moscow

Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO RAS)

‡ Department of South and Southwest Asia, Kunstkamera
(Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography), Saint Petersburg 

Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Oriental and African Studies, Saint Petersburg State University

CROATIA

Department of Indology and Far Eastern Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, Zagreb University

 

SLOVENIA

Department of African and Asian Studies, University of Ljubljana

 

BULGARIA

Indology Department, Center for Eastern Languages and Cultures, Sofia University ”St. Kliment Ohridski

 

ISRAEL

Institute of Asian & African Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Department of Asian Studies, University of Haifa

UNITED STATES

– American Institute of Afghanistan Studies (AIAS), Boston University, Massachussetts

American Overseas Research Centers, non-governmental institutions regarded by their host countries as the official arm of American higher learning, based at Washington D.C. Here a list of the South Asia Centers: 

– American Institute of Bangladesh Studies (AIBS), Ithaca, New York
– American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS), University of Chicago, Illinois
– American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS), Dept. of Anthropology, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
– American Institute of Sri Lankan Studies (AISLS), Belmont, Massachussetts

Center in Developing Status:
– Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies (ANHS), Dept. of Anthropology, Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota 

Nepal Study Center, Department of Economics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

‡ Center for South Asian Studies

‡ Association for Asian Studies

‡ Department of Asian Languages and Cultures

Asian Studies Program at Emory College, Atlanta, Georgia

University of Texas, Austin

‡ Department of South Asian Studies

‡ South Asia Institute, housing the US National Resource Center for South Asia

‡ Hindi Urdu Flagship, undergraduate program designed for students who wish to achieve advanced professional proficiency in Hindi and Urdu while majoring in a wide variety of programs, including Business, Communications, Engineering, and Liberal Arts. 

University of California, Berkeley

‡ Center for South Asia Studies

‡ Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies

Department of Asian and Asian American Studies, Binghamton University, New York State

India Studies Program, at Indiana University, Bloomington

Center for Asian Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder

Project South Asia, South Dakota State University, Brookings. Web-based digital library for improving the study and teaching of South Asia, focusing especially on India and Pakistan. 

Asian Studies Program, University of Buffalo, New York State

Asian Studies Program, University of Vermont, Burlington

Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

‡ Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR), Harvard Divinity School

‡ Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies

‡ Inner Asian and Altaic Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

‡ Pluralism Project, Committee on the Study of Religion

‡ Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

MIT India Technology Education Programme, Cambridge, Massachusetts

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

‡ North Carolina Center for South Asia Studies (NCCSAS), interinstitutional research center supported also by Duke University in Durham, and North Carolina State University in Raleigh. 

‡ Department of Asian Studies

‡ Department of Linguistics (Sanskrit studies)

University of Virginia, Charlottesville

‡ Center for South Asian Studies

‡ Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures (AMELC)

University of Chicago, Illinois

‡ American Institute of Indian Studies. More than 60 American colleges and universities support research in India as members of the American Institute of Indian Studies (see the list of universities) 

– Archive and Research Center for Ethnomusicology, Gurgaon, India
– Center for Art and Archeology, Gurgaon, India 

‡ Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations

‡ South Asia Language and Area Center

‡ Society for Advancing the History of South Asia, organisation founded in 2008 to promote scholarship on the history of the South Asian region in the United States

Asian Studies, Department of History, Loyola University, Chicago

India Studies Program, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, State University of Cleveland, Ohio

South and Southeast Asia Studies, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Program (AMES), Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire 

Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Davis (UC Davis)

Global Studies Program, Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, Illinois. Oakton has received the prestigious and highly competitive Title 6A: Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Program (UISFL) Grant from the U.S. Department of Education for two years beginning August 2009. The grant will bring over $125,000 to the College to develop curriculum, along with student and faculty international opportunities related to South Asia. Oakton will also develop courses for Hindi and Urdu languages. 

Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

‡ North Carolina Center for South Asia Studies (NCCSAS), interinstitutional research center supported
    also by North Carolina State University in Raleigh, and the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
    Secretariat located at Duke University.

Asian/Pacific Studies, Elon University, Elon, North Carolina

Muktabodha Indological Research Institute, Emeryville, California

Center for the Study of Hindu Traditions (CHiTra), University of Florida, Gainesville

Asian Studies program, Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey 

Asian Studies Department, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina 

Sikh Studies Program, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York State

Mahatma Gandhi Center for Global Nonviolence, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia

Center for South Asian Studies, University of Hawaii, Honolulu

Chao Center for Asian Studies, Rice University, Houston

Department of Asian and Slavic Languages, University of Iowa, Iowa City

Center for Asian Studies, University of California, Irvin

Academy of Bangla Arts & Culture, Irving, Texas 

South Asia Program, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

Project South Asia, Missouri Southern State College, Joplin

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

‡ Center for India and South Asia (CISA), UCLA International Institute. Opened on 1 July 2005, headed by Indian Historian Sanjay Subrahmanyam.

‡ Graduate Programme in South Asian History

Center for Religion & Spirituality, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California

University of Wisconsin, Madison

‡ Center for South Asia

‡ Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia

‡ South Asia Summer Language Institute (SASLI)

Tufts Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 

M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, Memphis, Tennessee

Florida International University, Miami

‡ Asian Studies Program, School of International and Public Affairs 

‡ Department of Religious Studies

– Bhagwan Mahavir Professorship of Jain Studies. Established in April 2010 

South Asian Studies, Middlebury College, Vermont 

Department of Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

South Asian Studies Council, MacMillan Centre for International and Area Studies at Yale, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Dept. of Philosophy and Religious Studies/Indic Studies Program, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Virginia

Afghanistan Reconstruction Project, Center on International Cooperation, New York University

Columbia University, New York

‡ Department of Middle East, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS)

‡ South Asia Institute, School of International and Public Affairs

India China Institute, The New School University, New York
Fosters collaborative research and institutional and personal connections between USA, India and China. Organises joint trilateral course at The New School, Yunnan University, and University of Calcutta.

Center for Afghanistan Studies, University of Nebraska at Omaha.

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

‡ Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI)

– University of Pennsylvania Institute for the Advanced Study of India (UPIASI), New Delhi – non-profit research organization being CASI’s counterpart institution in India, established in 1997.

‡ Department of South Asia Studies

‡ South Asia Center (National Resource Center for the Study of South Asia)

Institute for Afghan Studies, Phoenix, Arizona

Asian Studies Center (ASC), Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

‡ Center for the Performing Arts of India

Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies (ANHS), Portland University, Oregon

Asian Studies Program, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York State 

Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

‡ Asian Religious Traditions (ART), Department of Religious Studies 

‡ Sanskrit Programme, Department of Classics

Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures, State University of New Jersey, Rutgers

Religious Studies Department, University of California, Santa Barbara

‡ Center for Sikh and Punjab Studies

‡ Buddhist Studies

American Institute of Vedic Studies, Santa Fe, New Mexico

University of Washington, Seattle

‡ South Asia Center

‡ Department of Asian Languages and Literature

Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri

Center for India Studies, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY

Syracuse University South Asia Center, Syracuse, New York

Asian Studies Program, Florida State University, Tallahassee

Center for Asian Studies, Arizona State University in Tempe

Critical Languages Center, Modern Languages & Classics Department, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

‡ South Asian Collection, Asian Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)/Community College Humanities Association (CCHA), Washington, DC

‡ NEH/CCHA Summer Institute in India – The Cultural and Historical Development of Modern India

Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C

South Asia Research Network (SARN), Washington D.C. Network created by the South Asia program of the American Social Science Research Council (SSRC)

George Washington University, Washington D.C.

‡ Sigur Center for Asian Studies, Elliott School of International Affairs

– The Rising Powers Initiative, research project consisting of two major projects, ”Worldviews of Aspiring Powers: Exploring Foreign Policy Debates Abroad” and ”Power and Identity in Asia: Implications for Regional Cooperation.” 

– India Initiative

South Asia Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Washington D.C. Bipartisan, nonprofit organization conducting research and analysis and developing policy initiatives that look into the future and anticipate change.

United States Institute of Peace, Washington D.C. Includes an Afghanistan Working Group, chaired by Dr. Barnett R. Rubin

United States Educational Foundation in India, USEFI (The Fulbright Commission). Established under a bilateral agreement on educational exchange signed between India and the U.S. in 1950, with offices in Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai.

Asian Studies Major, William Paterson University, Wayne, New Jersey 

Asian Studies Program, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 

Department of Asian Studies, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts 

CANADA

‡ Human Security Report Project (HSRP). Maintains the Afghanistan Conflict Monitor and Pakistan Conflict Monitor.

School for International Studies, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia

Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, Calgary, Alberta

McGill University, Montreal

‡ Centre for Developing-Area Studies (CDAS)

‡ Indian Ocean World Centre (IOWC), research initiative and resource base established to promote the study of the history, economy and cultures of the lands and peoples touching the Indian Ocean World – from Africa to the Middle East, India, Indonesia and Australia to China.

Concordia University, Montreal

‡ Canadian Asian Studies Association (CASA), national voluntary, non-profit organization which seeks to expand and disseminate knowledge about Asia in Canada. 

‡ Chair in Hindu Studies, Department of Religion

Canadian Centre for South Asian Studies (CCSAS), Faculty of Business and Information Technology, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa

Religious Studies, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon

Centre for South Asian Studies, Asian Institute at the Munk Centre, University of Toronto

Centre for India and South Asia Research (CISAR), University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Asian Studies Centre, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg

MEXICO

Centro de Estudios de Asia y África (CEAA), Colegio de México, Pedregal de Santa Teresa

AUSTRALIA

ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University (ANU), Canberra

University of New England Asia Centre (UNEAC), Armidale, New South Wales

‡ Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy

‡ Crawford School of Economics and Government

‡ Faculty of Asian Studies Hindi Studies

‡ Research School of Asian and Pacific Studies

– Australia South Asia Research Centre (ASARC)

Asian Studies at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria

National Centre for South Asian Studies, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria

Department of Indian Sub-Continental Studies, Sydney University

India Research Centre at Macquarie University, Sydney.
Inaugurated on 16–17 November 2010. The Centre also hosts a new Tagore Chair in Art and Culture funded by the Government of India.

Indian Ocean and South Asia Research Network (IOSARN), University of Technology (UTS), Sydney

Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies (CAPSTRANS), University of Wollongong, New South Wales

NEW ZEELAND

New Zealand South Asia Centre (NZSAC) at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch. Launched on 18 March 2009

New Zealand India Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington. Launched on 1 January 2013

THAILAND

India Studies Centre, Thammasat University, Bangkok

Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok. Established in 1959, promotes technological change and sustainable development in the Asian-Pacific region through higher education, research and outreach.

Sanskrit Studies Centre, Dept. of Oriental Languages, Faculty of Archaeology, Silpakorn University, Bangkok

SINGAPORE

Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. Inaugurated on 11 August 2009.

Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore

JAPAN

Department of Indological Studies, Kyoto University

Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS), Gifu Women's University, Gifu-Shi 

Department of Indology and History of Indian Buddhism, Faculty of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University, Sendai

Research Institute for the Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo University

SOUTH AFRICA

Centre For Indian Studies in Africa (CISA), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

CHINA

Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies (IAPS), Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), Beijing

‡ Center for South Asian Studies

China-India Project, Centre of Asian Studies, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Hong Kong

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