Scholarly Associations
on South Asia

• Directory of Research Centers in Sri Lanka
  (American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies)
• Preliminary List of Organisations
  in the Field of Asian Studies in Europe (IIAS, Leiden)
• South Asia Research Institutions on the Internet
  (Univ. Goettingen)
• South Asian Research Centres (Directory)
  (SARN: South Asia Research Network, SSRC)
• South Asia Studies Programs
  (SouthAsianist.info)

• Abteilung für Indologie (Universität Zürich)
  
  
• American Council for Southern Asian Art (Slide Project)
  
  
• American Institute of Bangladesh Studies
  
  
• American Institute of Indian Studies
  
  
• American Institute of Pakistan Studies
  
  
• American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies
  
  
• The Asia Society
  
  
• Associated Colleges of the Midwest India Studies Program
  
  
• Association for Asian Studies
  
  
• Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
  
  
• Australia South Asia Research Centre [ASARC] (Australian National University)
  
  
• BASAS: British Association for South Asian Studies
  
  
• Brookings Institution - India/South Asia Project (foreign policy studies)
  
  
• Canadian Asian Studies Association (see also their South Asia Council)
  
  
• Canadian Centre for South Asian Studies (University of Ontario)
  
  
• Center for Cultural and Development Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  
  
• Center for India Studies (State University of New York at Stony Brook)
  
  
• Center for South Asia Libraries
  
  
• Center for the Advanced Study of India [CASI] (University of Pennsylvania)
  
  
• Centre de Sciences Humaines (New Delhi)
  
  
• Centre for Cooperative Research in Social Sciences - CCRSS (Pune, India)
  
  
• Centre for South Asian Studies (University of Edinburgh)
  
  
• Centre for South Asian Studies (University of Sydney)
  
  
• Centre for South Asian Studies (University of Toronto)
  
  
• Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
  
  
• Centre for the Study of Culture & Society (Bangalore, India)
  
  
• Centre of South Asian Studies (University of Cambridge)
  
  
• Dharam Hinduja Institute of Indic Research (University of Cambridge)
  
  
• École Française d'Extrême-Orient (Pondicherry, India)
  
  
• IFP: French Institute of Pondichery / Institut Français de Pondichéry
  
  
• Harvard India Program (Center for International Development)
  
  
• Independent Scholars of South Asia (ISOSA)
  
  
• India Initiative (Columbia University)
  
  
• Indian Council of Social Science Research
  "Indian Council of Social Science Research ( ICSSR) was established in the year 1969 by the Government of India to promote & sponsor social science research in India." Site contains very useful information on publications and research projects and trends, as well as NASSDOC database information and linkages.
  
  
• Indian Institute of Sindhology
  
  
• Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore
  
  
• Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai
  
  
• Indogermanisches Seminar (Universität Zürich)
  
  
• ISID: Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (New Delhi)
  
  
• Institute of Asian Studies (Chennai [Madras])
  (IAS Fact Sheet from the Tamil Electronic Library)
  
  
• International Association for Ladakh Studies
  
  
• International Institute for Asian Studies
  
  
• ItalIndia (Indian Studies in Italy)
  
  
• MIT India Technology Education Program
  
  
• Muktabodha Indological Research Institute
  Founded by Gurumayi Chidvilasananda. Religious study organization, with ambitious digital library publishing program.
  
  
• National Centre for South Asian Studies (Monash University)
  
  
• National Folklore Support Center (Chennai, India)
  
  
• National University of Singapore, South Asian Studies Programme
  
  
• Nepal Study Center (University of New Mexico)
  
  
• Nordic Association for South Asian Studies
  
  
• Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
  
  
• Orissa Research Program (Tübingen)
  A project of the Seminar for Indology and Comparative History of Religions, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, devoted to a GIS approach to studying historical geography of religion in Orissa
  
  
• Oxford MSc in Contemporary India
  
  
• Pali Text Society (Oxford)
  
  
• Program in South Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  
  
• Queen Elizabeth House Oxford - South Asian Visiting Scholars Program
  
  
• Rajasthan Studies Group
  
  
• RCSS: Regional Centre for Strategic Studies (Colombo)
  An "independent, non-profit and non-governmental organization for collaborative research, networking and interaction on strategic and international issues pertaining to South Asia. Themes relating to regional security, conflicts and co-operation constitute the principal focus of work."
  
  
• Regional Security in South Asia Project (Henry L. Stimson Center)
  
  
• SENAS: Southern Europe Network of Asian Studies
  
  
• Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute
  
  
• SSRC: Social Science Research Council : South Asia Program
  "...seeks to promote new and innovative research across all disciplines of the social sciences and humanities in and on [South Asia]... Program objectives: inter-disciplinarity, collaboration and the integration of teaching and research are manifested through fellowship programs, research networks, and capacity building initiatives." SSRC also operates the SARN: South Asia Research Network, a research network "to link researchers, scholars, teachers, students and practitioners whose primary area of interest is South Asia and South Asian Studies...SARN hosts information on academic journals, reviews, archives, libraries, and databases. It offers links to electronic publications, research notes and abstracts, and to leading research centers in the region."
  
  
• Society for South Asian Studies (British Academy, London)
  
  
• South Asia at the New School (New School for Social Research, New York)
  
  
• SARCAJC: South Asian Research Centre for Advertisements, Journalism and Cartoons
  
  
• SASA: South Asian Studies Association of Australia
  
  
• SASNET: Swedish South Asian Studies Network (Lund University)
  
  
• SASRF: South Asian Social Researchers Forum
  
  
• SOAS: School of Oriental and African Studies(University of London)
  
  
• Südasien-Institut (University of Heidelberg)
  In German. Also available in English version
  
  
• US South Asia Centers
  (National Resource Centers for South Asian Studies, some funded under the Title VI program of the US Dept. of Education)
  • Cornell University
  • Columbia University
  • Syracuse University (Moynihan Inst. of Global Affairs)
  • North Carolina Center for South Asia Studies and Triangle South Asia Consortium
  • Princeton University Committee for South Asian Studies
  • Rutgers University South Asian Studies Program
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • University of Chicago
  • University of Hawaii Center for South Asian Studies
  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • University of Texas, Austin
  • University of Virginia, Charlottesville
  • University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • University of Washington
  • Yale University South Asian Studies Council
  
  
• University of Pennsylvania Department of South Asia Studies
  
  
• Venetian Academy of Indian Studies
  
  
• Wharton India Economic Forum