The SASNET director writes about the recent presidential elections in Sri Lanka and what the results mean for Tamils, Muslims and other minorities. Read the full article here.

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/andreas-johansson-published-article-conversation - 2025-08-31

For the second year, SASNET invites researchers at Lund University to apply for a one month position (”ansökningsmånad”) at SASNET in which to prepare a research application with a South Asian focus. The purpose is to promote more South Asia-related research at Lund University. Members of all faculties and disciplines at the University are invited. The salary will range to a maximum of SEK 35 000.

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-one-month-position-prepare-research-application-lund-university - 2025-08-31

Rishi Jha joined the conference ‘At the frontiers of the urban: thinking concepts and practices globally’ organized by the UCL Urban Laboratory, University College London between 10-12th Nov 2019. At the conference, SASNET affiliated researcher Rishi Jha presented his ongoing research on ‘Necrosettlements: Urban Poor’s Rehousing and Death-Worlds in Mumbai’ as part of the panel on Contested urban d

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-researcher-presented-conference-london - 2025-08-31

The SASNET affiliated researcher's piece on the strategic value of the Indian diaspora for the Modi government was published in the RSIS Commentary by Nanyang Technological University Singapore. Synopsis: The Indian diaspora, having an enormous strategic value, has been drawing a lot of attention – from both policymakers and academics alike. What are the leading factors fashioning India’s diaspori

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/parama-sinha-palit-publishes-commentary-indian-diaspora - 2025-08-31

Isha Dubey discusses in her piece the recent court ruling on the dispute over the land of the Babri Mosque in Ayodhya, which was violently demolished 27 years ago. Read the full article here.

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-post-doc-publishes-article-conversation - 2025-08-31

#Rethinkingpopulism aims to facilitate dialogues and discussions on the various meanings of populism in current day societies. #Rethinkingpopulism brings together scholars from various backgrounds to explore populist phenomena around the globe and foster critical dialogue. It is a joint initiative by Lund University, the University of Helsinki and Istanbul Bilgi University, among others. SASNET is

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-supports-rethinking-populism-platform-opendemocracy - 2025-08-31

Shripad Dharmadhikary came to Lund in early December and held a number of lectures and interactive sessions at various departments of Lund University. SASNET was honoured to welcome Shripad Dharmadhikary from Pune, India. He was a full-time activist for 12 years with the Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save the Narmada Movement), founded by Right Livelihood Award winner Medha Patkar. Shripad is also the f

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/indian-water-expert-and-activist-visited-sasnet - 2025-08-31

The Nordic Centre in India announced its upcoming summer courses for 2020 in various locations in India. NCI welcomes applications for the following three summer courses taking place in India between May and August 2020:Gender and Society in Contemporary India University of Hyderabad, July 13th to August 8th, 2020This is a postgraduate level course that aims to provide and overview of issues relat

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/nci-summer-courses-2020 - 2025-08-31

Isha Dubey explores the nature of the communal violence that occurred in Bihar in 1946 against the backdrop of the ‘escalating’ communal tensions during the 1930-1940s. Abstract:The year 1937 saw the establishment of Congress Ministries in eight of the eleven provinces in which the provincial elections had been held, Bihar being one of them. The resounding victory of the Congress which secured a c

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-post-doc-publishes-article-journal-royal-asiatic-society - 2025-08-31

The summer School will take place in May 2020 at the LU Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety and offers training in developing gender-inclusive designs in response, recovery, and preparedness.  From the Lund University Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety website:"After the success of the first summer school, Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety is proud to announc

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-co-organises-summer-school-gender-and-risk - 2025-08-31

Orwa Ajjoub will be with us for the next 3 months, working on a report about the future of IS and al-Qaeda, also in the context of South Asia. Orwa Ajjoub is an affiliated researcher at SASNET. In 2018, Orwa graduated from Lund University with an MA in Middle Eastern Studies. Interested in Islamic theology and political Islam, Orwa wrote his thesis about the theological aspects of the split betwee

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-welcomes-new-researcher - 2025-08-31

The 4th annual meeting will take place at the University of Copenhagen on 28th and 29th May 2020. We are pleased to invite scholars and policy practitioners to contribute to the 4th annual meeting of the South Asia across the Nordic Region (SANR 2020) in Copenhagen. The SANR annual meeting offers a platform to present ongoing research and enhance scholarly collaboration across Nordic research inst

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sanr-conference-2020-call-papers - 2025-08-31

SASNET is pleased to welcome Dr. Amrita Ghosh from Linnaeus University and Dr. Phu Doma Lama from Lund University as new affiliated researchers. Amrita Ghosh has a Masters in English from Rutgers University, NJ and a PhD in Postcolonial literature and theory, specializing in Partition Literature, from Drew University, New Jersey, USA. She has had a fellowship at Cornell University, Critical Theory

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/two-new-affiliated-researchers-sasnet - 2025-08-31

The course takes place at the LU Centre for Theology and Religious Studies and deals with religious diversity in contemporary India. The course ”Brahmaner, imamer och heliga mödrar: religiös mångfald i dagens Indien” (Brahmins, Imams and Sacred Mothers: Religious Pluralism in Modern India) offers an introduction to the religious climate of today's India. Hindus, Buddhists, Christians, Muslims, Sik

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-sponsors-course-lund-university - 2025-08-31

The report presents an overview of SASNET's diverse activities and research-related accomplishments during the last year. SASNET has collaborated with several organisations within Lund University and with organisations from all over the country through seminars, publications, networking, and conferences.Find the full report here.

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-publishes-activity-report-2019 - 2025-08-31

SASNET organizes a conference entitled ”Modern Matters: Negotiating the Future in Everyday Life in South Asia” from 20 – 22 September 2016 at Lund University. The conference will explore what it means to consider oneself modern or outside the limits of modernity, in an extremely diverse region. It will also examine how the notion of modernity is experienced, contested, and negotiated in South Asia

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/papers-invited-sasnet-2016-conference-modernity-south-asia - 2025-08-31

Johan Nilsson will join SASNET to prepare a project tracing the reception of South Asian religion in Swedish Theosophy. Nilsson recently completed his PhD in the history of religions at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University. Nilsson's primary focus of study is esoteric and occult movements active during the 19th and 20th century. He has successfully defended his doctoral d

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-welcomes-johan-nilsson - 2025-08-31

During his time at SASNET, the security expert will work on Al Qaeda and the Islamic State in South Asia. Asheque recently joined SASNET as an affiliated researcher. He 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 propa

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/asheque-haque-joins-sasnet - 2025-08-31

In the brief, UI's Emil Lidén examines the potential for deeper security cooperation in Africa. The brief "Securing a Shared Neighbourhood: The European Union and India as Partners for Security in Africa" was recently published by the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI), which co-hosts the South Asia Initiative along with SASNET.  SummaryThe strategic partnership between the European U

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-report-south-asia-initiative-eu-india-relations-africa - 2025-08-31

In view of the ongoing corona pandemic, Andreas Johansson sat down with epidemiologist Dr. Shantanu Sharma to talk about the latest developments. After the first cases were reported in November 2019 in the Wuhan region of China, the coronavirus has spread to 177 countries and infected more than 200,000 people worldwide. While Europe is currently treated as the epicentre, not many cases have been r

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/latest-sasnet-podcast-corona-virus-india - 2025-08-31