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Andreas Johansson, Director of SASNET, published a brief for the Institute of South Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore on the role of Muslim Politics in the Sri Lanka political crisis. Read it here. 

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/publication-isas-insight - 2025-12-01

SANR is an annual conference about all things South Asian. It offers a platform for Nordic scholars of South Asia to present their research and meet other researchers. It is particularly intended to be a supportive meeting point for emerging scholars.   After initial meetings in Copenhagen in 2017 and Oslo in 2018, Uppsala will be the host in 2019 with the event taking place June 11-12 at the Swed

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/conference-announcement-south-asia-across-nordic-region-2019 - 2025-12-01

On December 12, 2018, Anna Lindberg, affiliated researcher at SASNET, attended an International Conference on Afghanistan, organized in Stockholm by the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan (SCA). The aim of the conference was to address local Afghani perspectives on peace building, and explore the role of development partners, humanitarian actors, civil society, and others in preventing conflict and

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/report-international-conference-afghanistan - 2025-12-01

Earlier this week SASNET received a message that the founder and former director of SASNET, Professor Emeritus Staffan Lindberg has died. It is with great sadness that we learned of Staffan’s passing. Staffan was to the very end very active in SASNET, not only as a mentor to current director Andreas Johansson, but also, for his contributions to seminars and publications. Just last year he publishe

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/staffan-lindberg-memoriam-1943-2019 - 2025-12-01

SASNET Director Andreas Johansson has published an article in The Conversation entitled, "Maldives: new president must ward off threats from Islamic extremism, foreign powers and autocratic rivals" Read it here

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-publication-conversation - 2025-12-01

Manpreet K. Janeja, Parama Sinha Palit and Rishi Jha join SASNET as affiliated researchers. Manpreet K. Janeja holds a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from Queens’ College, University of Cambridge (U.K.), and an M.A. in Sociology from the Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University (India). Her work so far has focused on three major concerns that straddle the ‘public’ and ‘private’ domains: (1) norma

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/three-scholars-join-sasnet-affiliated-researchers - 2025-12-01

During 2018 SASNET has conducted a wide range of activities to bolster South Asia research and research related accomplishments at Lund University. SASNET has collaborated with several organizations both within Lund University but also with organizations from all over the country through seminars, publications, networking, and conferences. web_verkbroschyr_a4_andreas.pdf

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/2018-productive-year-sasnet - 2025-12-01

Andreas Mattsson from the School of Journalism at Department of Communication and Media, Lund University and Vibodh Parthasarathi from Jamia Millia Islamia joins SASNET as affiliated researchers during 2019. Andreas Mattsson is a lecturer and program director at School of Journalism at Department of Communication and Media, Lund University. He is also the coordinator for the platform Researchers M

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/andreas-mattsson-vibodh-parthasarathi-joins-sasnet-affiliated-researchers - 2025-12-01

SASNET affiliated researcher Admir Skodo was interviewed about the situation in Afghanistan and the recent deportations of Afghans from Sweden in Svenska Dagbladet. Read it here (paywall) 

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-researcher-admir-skodo-was-interviewed-svenska-dagbladet - 2025-12-01

SASNET affiliated researcher Parama Sinha Pali has published an article in the Rising Powers Quarterly entitled "India’s Use of Social Media in Public Diplomacy." R ead it here.

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-publication-affiliated-researcher-parama-sinha-palit - 2025-12-01

During 2019 Hanna Geschewski and Ulrika Andersson will work at SASNET as student assistants with different tasks regarding communication and seminars. Hanna Geschewski is pursuing her Master’s in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science (LUMES). Hanna spent nine years in Nepal and India. Hanna was able to grasp the natural and cultural diversity and societal and historical complexities of

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/hanna-geschewski-and-ulrika-andersson-join-sasnet-student-assistants - 2025-12-01

SASNET affiliated researcher Admir Skodo has published an article in the Journal of Refugee Studies entitled "Long and Short Arms of the State: Swedish Multidirectional Controls of Afghan Asylum Seekers During the Cold War" Abstract of the article:Drawing on unique sources from the Swedish Migration Agency Archive, this article examines how Afghan asylum seekers and refugees fared in their encount

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-publication-affiliated-researcher-admir-skodo - 2025-12-01

SASNET affiliated researcher Rishi Jha has published an article in the Community Development Journal entitled 'Civilizing the political society? Redevelopment regime and Urban Poor’s Rights in Mumbai' AbstractThis article is concerned with informality-state relations, subaltern politics and citizenship in the context of the urban redevelopment regime. Based on an empirical study of an NGO (SPARC)-

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-publication-affiliated-researcher-rishi-jha - 2025-12-01

Together with Per Stålberg and Britta Ohm, SASNET affiliated researcher Vibodh Parthasarathi has published an article in Culture Unbound entitled 'Introduction: Critical Explorations of Media Modernity in India' Read it here. 

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-publication-affiliated-researcher-vibodh-parthasarathi - 2025-12-01

SASNET Director Andreas Johansson was interviewed about Buddhist extremism in Sri Lanka on ABC News, Australia. Read it here  

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-director-andreas-johansson-was-interviewed-abc-news-australia - 2025-12-01

SASNET Director Andreas Johansson visited Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations in London from March 13 to 14. During the visit Andreas met with the Director of the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, Professor Leif Stenberg, and discussed the future collaborations between the two institutions.  Aga Khan University established the Inst

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-visited-aga-khan-centre-london - 2025-12-01

Jakob Hernborg Axelson recently compiled a report on Asian studies in Sweden, highlighting the need to strengthen Swedish expertise on Asia. On behalf of the South Asia Initiative, Jakob Hernborg Axelson has prepared a report on Swedish education and research on Asia over the last 10 years. The South Asia Initiative builds on a collaboration with the Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) at

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/report-asian-studies-sweden-published - 2025-12-01

SASNET Associate Researcher Kristina Myrvold and SASNET Director Andreas Johansson have published an article on religious comforts of Indian soldiers in the First World War. SASNET Associate Researcher Kristina Myrvold, together with the Director of SASNET, Andreas Johansson, has published an article in the Journal Postscripts entitled "Miniature Qur'ans in the First World War: Religious Comforts

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-publication-andreas-johansson-and-kristina-myrvold - 2025-12-01

The Nordic Centre in India (NCI) is offering three different grants for scholars from NCI member universities to conduct research in India. As in previous years, the Nordic Centre in India, a consortium of leading universities and research institutions in the Nordic countries, will provide funding to a number of doctor-level researchers and above from NCI member universities to support their resea

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/nci-grants-research-visits-india - 2025-12-01

The latest issue of the Sydasien magazine tells the story of a school for differently abled children in Nepal and takes a closer look at abortion practices in Sri Lanka, among others. Read the latest issue here. Through a new collaboration between Sydasien and SASNET the magazine once again appears in print, this time biannually. Through SASNET the online version of Sydasien gains more depth as a

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-issue-sydasien-now-available-1 - 2025-12-01