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In 1998, a Swedish government working group set up to “intensify Swedish relations with Asia,” made an inventory of existing Asia related research and educational resources in Sweden. Under reconstruction. SASNET's old archived website
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/brief-history-sasnet - 2025-12-25
AirplaneThe closest international airport is Copenhagen international airport (Kastrup, Denmark). All Öresund trains from Copenhagen Airport bound for Sweden make a stop at Lund Central Station. From the airport it is a 40-minute ride to Lund and trains depart every 20 minutes. You’ll find ticket vending machines in the airport arrival area and by the tracks. You can pay in local currency (SEK and
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/how-get-here - 2025-12-25
Listen to interviews with SASNET researchers and guests and recordings from our events. Episode 11 - COVID-19 and the festival season in Nepal After featuring two experts from Nepal earlier in 2020, Hanna Geschewski spoke with Dr. Anup Subedee, who gave an overview of the development of the pandemic in Nepal since its first case was detected in January 2020 and analysed the current situation, only
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/activities/sasnet-podcast - 2025-12-25
SASNET is happy to announces the 2016 result of the applications for a one month position to prepare a research application with a South Asian focus. The Lund University researchers selected are Dr. Maria Tonini, Dept. of Gender Studies; and Dr. Ted Svensson, Dept. of Political Science. For the second year, SASNET invited researchers at Lund University to apply for a one month position (”ansökning
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/one-month-position-ansokningsmanad-lund-university-researchers - 2025-12-25
SASNET post-doc Isha Dubey is currently working on her post-doctoral project "Memory, Memorialization and the Politics of Forgetting: ‘Difficult Heritage’ and the construction and contestation of ‘national memory’ in India and Bangladesh". The project seeks to understand what constitutes the discourse of nationhood and the processes that inform nation-making. The project essentially attempts to un
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/research/former-research/former-projects/memory-memorialization-and-politics-forgetting - 2025-12-25
In 2017 and 2018, the Sweden–South Asia Media Project carried out several activities. 2018 Pop-Up Newsroom project For the Swedish and Indian election, Vibodh Parthasarathi and Andreas Mattsson initiated a pop-up newsroom project and participated in several events to bring together scholars, practitioners and media representatives. The results were published in The Conversation and in the IIC Quar
2020 Webinar: Media Landscapes and Media Advocacy: Perspectives from India and Sweden In this webinar, scholars and practitioners addressed different issues related to the media landscape and media advocacy from an international comparative perspective. Participants were students from the School of Journalism (Journalistutbildningen), the Department of Strategic Communication at Lund University,
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/research/current-research-projects/sweden-south-asia-media-project/project-activities-2019 - 2025-12-25
Asheque Haque is a political and security researcher on South Asia. He has worked as a countering violent extremism professional at the international level and has led multiple projects in the field. His research includes violent extremist propaganda, jihadi ideology in Bangladesh, security challenges and practices in the region, among others. At SASNET, Asheque will work on his project "The impli
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/staff/sasnet-affiliated-researchers/asheque-haque - 2025-12-25
The 2020 report provides a comprehensive overview of current and previous research at Lund University on the South Asian region. Categorised by Lund University departments and faculties, previous SASNET intern Anni-Elina Vänska listed researchers that have conducted work on or in South Asia. She also included a number of interviews with Lund University researchers. You can find the full report her
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/research/publications/sasnet-reports/report-south-asia-research-lund-university - 2025-12-25
Cooperation between the Nordic region and India is expanding and deepening. Government, industry and people-to-people connections are wide-ranging. With expanding connections follows a greater need to understand one another’s past, present - and possible futures - when shaping policy and strategy. The Project for Nordic-India Relations (PNIR) is a public-private partnership born out of an identifi
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/networks/project-nordic-india-relationship-pnir - 2025-12-25
Read and download published SASNET reports. Fuzzy Borders and Postcolonial Forgotten Zones: The Case of Indo-Bangladeshi Enclaves Amrita Ghosh (2021) Education as an empowerment tool for women in Afghanistan Maliha Shir Mohammad (2021) The Development of the Theological and Political Aspects of Jihadi-Salafism Orwa Ajjoub (2021) Islamic Reformism and malayāḷi ummah in Nineteenth-Century Colonial
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/research/publications/sasnet-reports - 2025-12-25
Throughout the summer of 2020, violent extremist organizations continued their activities in South Asia. Though violence is a major element in jihadist ideology, this report directs our attention to the wider implications of jihadi propaganda. Values concerning rights, democracy, and equality are all subverted and targeted by jihadi political messaging, working to the detriment of local and intern
Maliha recently completed her master's degree in Gender Studies at Lund University. Previously, she obtained degrees in Asian Studies and International Relations from Lund University and Malmö University. Her academic work focuses on women's rights in Afghanistan and various aspects of the lives of Afghan women in Sweden. She has written about domestic violence in the Afghan diaspora in Sweden and
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/staff/maliha-shir-mohammad - 2025-12-25
SASNET is hosting an online conference on "Rethinking the Politics of Memory in South Asia" on 9-10 December 2020. Context: The current debates around the politics of memory and memorialization reinforce that the act of remembrance and forgetting in the present does not exist in isolation from the past that informs them. This mnemohistorical continuity becomes even more apparent in the current
This paper offers a social history of the relationship between Islamic reform and malayāḷi Muslim in the context of colonial Kerala. Kerala Muslims are one of the largest Muslim communities in India, and a majority are the descendants of Arab traders and local women, or of local converts known as Mappilas. This article relates the reformist agenda in the writings of Sayyid Sanā’ullāh Makti Tan
SASNET promotes knowledge of the South Asian region by drawing attention to and bringing together publications about the region here. Previously, SASNET produced its own research report publication series and the academic publication Chakra: A Nordic Journal of South Asian Studies. They can be found below. Read and download recent publications here. Lund University Publications Chakra Journal SA
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/research/publications - 2025-12-25
SASNET participates in or has established partnerships with several networks within the Nordic region and beyond, focusing on the South Asian subcontinent. Find out more about SASNET's partners by clicking on the links below. Project for Nordic-India Relations (PNIR) PNIR is a public-private partnership and is part of the Asia programme at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI). As
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/networks - 2025-12-25
Find out more about SASNET's previous scholarships and guest researchers. SASNET has had reseachers from the start, many of whom have come through short-term fellowships: The ICCR professorship An ICCR professorship programme was run at Lund University during four years, 2010–2014. The programme was an outcome of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICC
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/research/former-research/former-researchers - 2025-12-25
Here you can find an overview of previous SASNET projects. Cross-cultural and Cross-disciplinary Collaborations: Gender, Space, and Precariousness in Asia Memory, Memorialization and the Politics of Forgetting A Nation and its Fault Lines
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/research/former-research/former-projects - 2025-12-25
From its inception in 2000 until today, SASNET has been led by four directors, Staffan Lindberg (2000-2007), Anna Lindberg (2007-2016), Andreas Johansson (2016-2021) and the current SASNET director Ted Svensson. Read more about the previous directors and their work by clicking on the links below. Staffan Lindberg Staffan Lindberg was SASNET Director from 2000 to 2007. Anna Lindberg Anna Lindberg
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/about-sasnet/brief-history-sasnet/former-directors - 2025-12-25
