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The Nordic Centre in India has an India Liaison office in Delhi and a Secretariat that circulates between the member universities in the Nordic region. The Nordic Centre in India (NCI) is a consortium of leading universities and research institutions in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. Established in 2001 with the objective to facilitate cooperation in research and higher education
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/networks/nordic-centre-india-nci - 2026-01-11
The Network for Asian Studies (Asianettverket) is based at the Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM) at the University of Oslo, Norway. Asianettverket is a Norwegian research network promoting studies and research on Asia, and sharing knowledge about the region's history, society, culture, politics and the environment. The network was founded in 1996 and is led by a group of scholars in
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/networks/asianettverket - 2026-01-11
In his newly published report "From Afghanistan to Syria: The Development of the Theological and Political Aspects of Jihadi-Salafism", funded by SASNET and the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University, researcher Orwa Ajjoub interrogates the complicated relationship between the theological concepts of jihadi-Salafism and the ever-changing socio-political context in which they
In her report "Education as an empowerment tool for women in Afghanistan: the insider perspectives of educated Afghan women", which is a summary of her MA thesis, author Maliha Shir Mohammad explores the understudied topic of the lived experiences of educated Afghan women and investigates their perspectives on education as an empowerment tool, in addition to their challenges and motivations for
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/research/publications/sasnet-reports/education-empowerment-tool-women-afghanistan - 2026-01-11
Abstract: This is a preliminary pilot project that encompasses an overview on the Indo-Bangladeshi complex borderlands, focusing on the enclaves or ‘chitmahals’ that became unique stateless conflict zones between India and Bangladesh. A historic Land Boundary Agreement was signed in 2015, that officially exchanged all chitmahals of both Indian and Bangladeshi side towards incorporation and inclu
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From June 2021 to February 2022 This project focused on historical ruptures within the Indian nation since the Partition of 1947, 1971 and the present moment that includes the long Kashmir conflict as a painful legacy of the colonial border alignments and construction of the two nation-states. It raises questions on belonging and and the idea of citizenship in its creation of the ‘other’ within th
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/nation-and-its-fault-lines - 2026-01-11
RESEARCHER Dr. Amrita Ghosh was a researcher at SASNET with the project "A Nation and its Fault Lines", from June 2021 to February 2022. She has worked on a postdoc at Linnaeus University, Center of Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies. During the postdoc she worked on emerging literature, films and visual texts on and from Kashmir, representing the conflict in myriad ways. Her monogr
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/staff/amrita-ghosh - 2026-01-11
For general inquiries E-mail: sasnet [at] sasnet [dot] lu [dot] se Phone number: +46 (0)46 222 0343 Get in touch with our staff The Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) is based at Lund University in Sweden. See below for our contact information for general inquiries and for specific inquiries to staff members. Catarina Kinnvall Director Email: catarina [dot] kinnvall [at] svet [dot] lu [d
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/contact-us - 2026-01-11
On SASNET's Youtube channel you will find recorded lectures and webinars - along with other resources. Find all seminars on our YouTube channel. SASNET at Almedalen 2023: During the annual Almedalen Week in Visby, SASNET co-organised a panel debate, together with the Swedish Institute of International Affairs. See the debate here (Swedish). SASNET Annual Lecture 2023: Professor Christophe Jaffr
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/events-1/sasnet-videos - 2026-01-11
In 2020, the South Asia Initiative launched its own podcast, Indienpodden, which can be found on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. The podcast is organised into thematic series, with the first, "Climate Lens South Asia" (in English), focusing on climate and environment-related issues in the subcontinent. The second series (in Swedish) is scheduled to launch this fall and will focus on democratic transit
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/research/former-research/former-projects/sai-podcast - 2026-01-11
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Andreas Johansson was the director of SASNET, the South Asian Studies Network at Lund University, from November 2016 until December 2021. Johansson continued the former director Anna Lindberg's work on transforming SASNET from a national network to a research center at Lund University. Johansson became SASNET's new director in November 2016. One of Johansson's main goals was to secure permanent fu
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/andreas-johansson - 2026-01-11
Best South Asia Thesis Award 2024/2025 Open for applications. Application deadline: 30 September 2025. South Asia Travel Grant for Doctoral Students Open for applications. Application deadline: 15 October 2025. South Asia Travel Grant for Master Students Open for applications. Application deadline: 15 October 2025. Grants for Writing a Research Application (Ansökningsmånad) The application deadl
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/sasnet-grants - 2026-01-11
To broaden the knowledge about the role of religion in the ethnic conflicts of Sri Lanka this project deals with the difficult historical and contemporaneous problems that the country presently suffers from. Project leader: Andreas Johansson, andreas [dot] johansson [at] ctr [dot] lu [dot] se Period: 2022–2025 Host institution: Center for Theology and Religious Studies. The project will run be
Since 2022, SASNET annualy grants a Lund University student the Best South Asia Thesis Award for an excellent Bachelor or Master thesis in the humanities or social sciences (broadly conceived). Award criteriaThe thesis must have been submitted and defended by a student at Lund University and received the highest marks (A, B or VG). It should be a thesis from the ongoing academic year (2024-2025),
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/thesisaward - 2026-01-11
