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HCSA Newsletter published

The Heidelberg Centre South Asia (HCSA) published its latest Newsletter. It reports on the latest news and events of HCSA, Heidelberg University and looks on upcoming HCSA Events.

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Jai Prasad new PhD student at the Department of Political Science

The South Asia Institute cordially welcomes Jai Prasad as new PhD student at the Department of Political Science. As a Marie Curie Fellow in the Global India programme, he is working towards his PhD dissertation, currently titled ‘Revisiting the State: Politics, Development, and Tribal Welfare in Jharkhand, India’ under the supervision of Professor Rahul Mukherji. Jai Prasad completed his MA (Sociology) and MPhil from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India.

Brunch of Department of Cultural and Religious History of South Asia

We cordially invite all students of the Department of Cultural and Religious History of South Asia to our department brunch:

24.10. from 10am in the Cafeteria of the SAI

New students will have an opportunity to get to know each other, new collegues and lectures and the colloquium of the department. We would like to start the new semester in a cosy atmosphere with coffee and snacks.

New publication by Ute Hüsken

Prof. Dr. Ute Hüsken, Chair of the Department of Cultural and Religious History of South Asia contributed a chapter entitled “Gods and Goddesses in the Ritual Landscape of Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Kāncipuram” to the new publication Layered Landscapes: Early Modern Religious Space Across Faiths and Culture, edited by Eric Nelson and Jonathan Wright (Routledge).