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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/research/publications/sasnet-reports/development-theological-and-political-aspects-jihadi-salafism - 2026-01-07

  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

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  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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This website is run by SASNET. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website, and this document describes how www.sasnet.lu.se complies with the accessibility regulations, any known accessibility issues, and how you can report problems so that we can fix them. How accessible is www.sasnet.lu.se? We know some parts of this website aren't fully accessible. See the section on non-

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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