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March 2026

Tibetan Archives From Mustang: Reconstructing the Lives of “People without History” by Prof. Dr. Charles Ramble

Inking an Identity: The Stories Behind Tharu Tattoo Motifs

Indian Politics & Policy New Issue Announcement - Winter Issue 2025 on Indian Foreign Policy

Deutschlandfunk Podcast on the Election in Nepal

New episode of ON South Asia: Book Talk: International Booker Prize winner Geetanjali Shree in conversation with literary critic Claudia Kramatschek

February 2026

Prof. Dr. Axel Michaels reappointed as Senior Professor

Prateek Pankaj latest publication: 'New Genealogies of the Contemporary Indian Political Moment' in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies

Dr. Deepra Dandekar's latest publication ""The Bible Tongue: Pandita Ramabai's Marathi Bible" in The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in India (2026)

New Issue of Nidan: International Journal for Indian Studies (HASP)

Announcement of the International Course “Readings in Indian and Jewish Ritual Texts: The Science of Ritual” - July 5-10,2026

New episode of ON South Asia: Literature, Gandhi, and Feminist Defiance: In conversation with Dr. Sudhir Chandra

Book Release “Garments and Growth: State, Ideas, Policy Learning, and Globalization in Bangladesh” (2026) by Dr. ASM Mostafizur Rahman

Article Publication by Department Lecturer Dr. ASM Mostafizur Rahman

Mob Rule As Political Strategy: Reshaping Bangladesh's Secular Memory And Pluralistic Bengali Culture

January 2026

Allama Iqbal Professional Fellowship - H.E. Pakistan Ambassador Saqlain Syedah visits the South Asia Institute

Ambivalent Enmity in Bordering Processes - Dr. Philipp Zehmisch interviewed for the “Us and Them” podcast

SAI Colloquium - “Caring for Capital Futures? Environmental Conservation and Indigenous Rights at an Urban Frontier” by Dr. Philipp Zehmisch

New episode of ON South Asia (in German)

December 2025

Call for Applications: Joint Scholarship Program of the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University and the Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies Delhi (MWF Delhi) for young scholars from South Asia - Summer of 2026

New Publication by Dr. Philipp Zehmisch - “Who Cares?: On fieldwork, family and violence in South Africa and Pakistan”

November 2025

New episode of ON South Asia

Welcome to Ojaswini Shekhawat - Visiting Researcher from Yale University

New Publication by Prof. Kama Maclean - '"Noisy"' Photographs: Listening to Images from the Civil Disobedience movement in Bombay'

Welcome to Mallory Cerkleski - Visiting Researcher from the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy

Welcome to Haruki Tsuji - Visiting Researcher from the University of Tokyo

Welcome to Prof. Nasir Uddin

October 2025

Dr. Deepra Dandekar was awarded a DFG Postdoctoral Fellowship for her project "“Hamid Dalwai: Democratic Socialism and Muslim Politics in India, 1947-1977”

Prateek Pankaj granted a Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes for his doctorate studies

Welcome to Surabhi Pudasaini

Prof. Dr. Kama Maclean Special Lecture Series in University of Pennsylvania

Ashwani Sharma granted a Visiting Scholar position at Yale University

Presentation-Performance by Moushumi Bhowmik

Songs Grow out of a Land

Film Festival convened by H. Mander (PhD)

India Through Cinema

September 2025

New Languages - New Worlds: Beginner Courses Starting in the Winter Semester 25/26

August 2025

New Issue of Indian Politics & Policy

Indian Politics & Policy Summer 2025 Issue

July 2025

EASAS Research Student Awards

Conversation with Pakistani author Syed Kashif Raza

New episode of the podcast ON South Asia

Exhibition: Sacred Dirt- Mother Teresa and Volunteering in Kolkata

SAI Colloquium - “Mother, Lover, Śakti: Female protagonists in Rabindranath Tagore's novels” by Prof. Hans Harder

June 2025

“Raibari” by Ashwani Sharma: Monograph published

Revival, Reform or Revolution? The Bhakti Period and its Modern Interpreters

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