The concentration program requires eleven courses and a B.A. paper. Required courses include (1) the South Asian civilization sequence (Social Sciences 23000-23100); (2) three courses in a South Asian language, the level depending on previous achievement and on how the general education requirement is met; (3) three courses in the social sciences, preferably from a single discipline; and (4) three electives, preferably courses that strengthen the disciplinary emphasis or reading courses for the B.A. paper. Students should discuss their choice of an appropriate language sequence with the chairperson early in their program of study.

2 SOSC 23000-23100

3 courses in a South Asian language

3 approved social sciences courses

(South Asian and Divinity School

courses on the following list may be

used to meet this requirement)

3 approved electives

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Bachelor's Paper. All candidates for the Bachelor of Arts degree in South Asian studies are required to write a bachelor's paper of approximately thirty pages in length. Although they may choose to begin their project earlier, students must initiate work on their B.A. paper no later than the beginning of autumn quarter of their senior year. Students are expected to work with a faculty supervisor and to consult the chairperson of undergraduate studies about the suitability of their project.

Grading. The eight nonelective courses in the South Asian studies program must be taken for quality grades.

Honors. The decision of the award of honors is not made on the basis of any formal program. Students who wish to compete for honors should consult the concentration chairperson.

MUZAFFAR ALAM, Professor, Department of South Asian Languages & Civilizations

Arjun Appadurai, Samuel N. Harper Professor, Departments of Anthropology and South Asian Languages & Civilizations, and the College; Director, Globalization Project

ELENA BASHIR, Lecturer, Department of South Asian Languages & Civilizations

Philip V. Bohlman, Professor, Department of Music and the College

Carol Breckenridge, Senior Lecturer, Division of the Humanities; Associate Member, Department of South Asian Languages & Civilizations

Dipesh Chakrabarty, Professor, Departments of South Asian Languages & Civilizations and History, and the College

Bernard S. Cohn, Professor Emeritus, Departments of Anthropology and History

Steven Collins, Professor, Department of South Asian Languages & Civilizations

John E. Craig, Associate Professor, Department of Education and the College

Norman J. Cutler, Associate Professor, Department of South Asian Languages & Civilizations

Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Professor, the Divinity School, Department of South Asian Languages & Civilizations, Committee on Social Thought, and the College

MAITREESH GHATAK, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and the College

Ronald B. Inden, Professor, Departments of History and South Asian Languages & Civilizations, and the College

D. Gale Johnson, Eliakim Hastings Moore Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics and the College; Co-Director, Undergraduate Economics Program

NGAWANG JORDEN, Lecturer, Department of South Asian Languages & Civilizations

Matthew Kapstein, Associate Professor, Department of South Asian Languages & Civilizations; Numata Visiting Professor, Divinity School

John D. Kelly, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology and the College

ALAN L. KOLATA, Neukom Family Professor, Department of Anthropology and the College

McKim Marriott, Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology and the College

WILLIAM MAZZARELLA, Visiting Assistant Professor, the College.

Mithilesh Mishra, Lecturer, Department of South Asian Languages & Civilizations

Heshmat Moayyad, Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations

Kathleen morrison, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology and the College

C. M. Naim, Professor Emeritus, Department of South Asian Languages & Civilizations

Ralph W. Nicholas, Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology and the College

James H. Nye, Bibliographer, Southern Asian Collection, Joseph Regenstein Library; Director, South Asian Language & Area Center

John R. perry, Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations

Sheldon Pollock, George V. Bobrinskoy Professor, Department of South Asian Languages & Civilizations and the College

Frank E. Reynolds, Professor Emeritus, the Divinity School, Department of South Asian Languages & Civilizations, and the College

Lloyd I. Rudolph, Professor, Department of Political Science and the College; Chairperson, South Asian Studies Program

Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, William Benton Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Political Science and the College

Clinton Booth Seely, Associate Professor, Department of South Asian Languages & Civilizations

Richard A. Shweder, Professor, Department of Psychology (Human Development and Mental Health), Committee on South Asian Studies, and the College

Richard P. Taub, Paul Klapper Professor of Social Sciences in the College; Professor, Departments of Sociology and Human Development; Chairperson, Public Policy Studies in the College; Research Associate, Ogburn/Stouffer Center for the Study of Population & Social Organization at the National Opinion Research Center

Robert Townsend, Charles E. Merriam Professor, Department of Economics and the College

ANTH 21407/51800. The Practice of Anthropology: Decolonization, New Nations, and Great Traditions. J. Kelly. Not offered 2001-02; will be offered 2002-03.

ANTH 22200/31900. Social Movements in Contemporary India (=SALC 22200/31900). A. Appadurai. Spring.

ANTH 22000/35500. The Anthropology of Development (=ENST 22000). A. Kolata. Not offered 2001-02; will be offered 2002-03.

ANTH 25900/39400. South Asia before the Buddha (=ANST 25900). K. Morrison. Not offered 2001-02; will be offered 2002-03.

ECON 25600. Problems of Economic Policy in Developing Countries (=PBPL 28600/37500). PQ: ECON 20100 and 20200, or consent of instructor. L. Sjaastad. Winter.

ECON 26500. Environmental Economics (=ENST 26500, PBPL 32800). PQ: ECON 20100 and 21000, or consent of instructor. Concurrent enrollment in ECON 21000 is allowed. M. Greenstone. Spring.

PLSC 25300/36300. State, Society, and Economy in South Asia. S. Rudolph. Spring.

SALC 20500/30500. Films in India (=ANTH 20600/31100, CMST 24100/34100, HIST 26700/36700). R. Inden. Autumn.

SALC 20700. Critics of Colonialism: Gandhi and Fanon (=HIST 26600/36600). D. Chakrabarty. Winter.

SALC 22200/31900. Social Movements in Contemporary India (=ANTH 22200/31900). A. Appadurai. Spring.

SALC 22600/32600. Literature of Bengal: English Originally versus in Translation. C. Seely. Autumn.

SALC 25700. The Kamasutra and The Laws of Manu: Sex and Religion in Ancient India (=FNDL 23600, GNDR 25800, HREL 32100, RLST 26900). W. Doniger. Winter.

SALC 26700/36700. Approaches to Modern South Asian History (=HIST 26900/36900). D. Chakrabarty. Spring.

SALC 27600. India under the Mughals, 1526-1740. M. Alam. Spring.

SALC 28200-28300/49200-49300. Diasporas: Asian Migration in the Modern World I (=ANTH 22800/33200). C. Breckenridge. Not offered 2001-02; will be offered 2002-03.

SALC 29100. Ethnic Violence in Global Perspective (=ANTH 22600, HMRT 22600). A. Appadurai. Not offered 2001-02; will be offered 2002-03.

SALC 29700. Asceticism and Civilization: Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism. S. Collins. Winter.

SALC 35900. Mythologies of Transvestism and Transsexuality (=HREL 40800). W. Doniger. Autumn.

SASC 28500. Media and Identity in Modern India: From Colonial Collectors to Global "Netizens" (=SOSC 28600). W. Mazzarella. Spring.

SASC 29700. Readings in South Asian Studies. PQ: Consent of faculty supervisor and undergraduate studies chair. Students are required to submit the College Reading and Research Course Form. Staff. Autumn, Winter, Spring.

SASC 29900. B.A. Paper. PQ: Consent of faculty supervisor and undergraduate studies chair. Students are required to submit the College Reading and Research Course Form. Staff. Autumn, Winter, Spring.