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Welcome to SASNET

At the Swedish South Asian Studies Network, we have been promoting research on South Asia since 2000.

Our research

SASNET currently runs two research projects, on the South Asian media landscape and on religion and politics in Sri Lanka.

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Our publications

Here you can access recent SASNET reports and issues of the Chakra Journal.

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Our partners

Find out more about our network around the globe.

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Our staff

Learn more about the work of our SASNET staff and affiliated researchers.

SASNET News

Catarina Kinnvall talking at a seminar in the Asia Library at Lund University

20 Sep 2022 | News

First seminar of the semester - How will Russia's invasion of Ukraine affect geopolitics in Asia?

The seminar took place on the 14 September in collaboration with the Centre for East and Southeast Asian Studies (ACE) at Lund University. The seminar brought together three experts on the politics of Asia to discuss how the Russian invasion of Ukraine has affected the region.

City in Bhutan

22 Jun 2022 | News

Planning grants for the submission of a major research application

The Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) invites Lund University researchers who are in the process of putting together and submitting a major national or international research application to apply for a new round of planning grants. Examples of such applications include the EU framework pr...

Hyderabad, Photo: David Mark

15 Jun 2022 | News

Two new SASNET grants to support writing of research applications

Maryam Nastar, researcher at Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS), and Rashmi B. Prasad, Associate Professor at Lund University Diabetes Centre, receive the first two SASNET grants intended to support individual researchers at Lund University in their writing of research applic...

Train in Sri Lanka, photo: Adam Hill

11 May 2022 | News

South Asia travel grants for PhD students

SASNET invites Lund University PhD students to apply for two travel grants.

Sri Lanka flag, photo: David Peterson

5 May 2022 | News

New article about protests in Sri Lanka

In a new article, published in The Conversation, SASNET affiliated researcher Andreas Johansson writes about the recent protests in Sri Lanka.

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