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The study of South Asia, particularly modern India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, is an increasingly important area of academic inquiry. The region is home to more than a billion people — just over 23 percent of humanity. It is the site of some of the world‘s great civilizations. It contains two nuclear powers. And the South Asian diaspora constitutes one of the most successful minority communities in the United States. Recognizing the region's significance, Harvard University has launched a program that comprehensively examines South Asia's economy and culture by establishing a center of excellence in South Asian Studies.
Upcoming Events:
South Asia Initiative 2008 Grantee Award Reception
Friday, May 9th, 2008
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Ticknor Lounge, Boylston Hall
Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
(Click here to view a map)
For more details on this and other events, click here.
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Recent Media Pieces on South Asia at Harvard:
China, India, and Billions of Entrepreneurs
Aired: Wednesday, January 30, 2008
By host Tom Ashbrook
Tarun Khanna, professor at Harvard Business School, member of the South Asia Initiative steering committee, and author of "Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures--and Yours" is interviewed on National Public Radio show On Point. Read more...
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Sugata Bose, Director of the South Asia Initiative
and Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs
Read President Drew Faust's Announcement on South Asia at Harvard Here:
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RESOURCE SHEET FOR STUDENTS TRAVELING TO INDIA
Click here.
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Harvard South Asia Links:
Learning and Educational Achievement in Pakistan Schools (LEAPS)
The "Learning and Educational Achievement in Pakistan Schools" (LEAPS) project provides the detailed information needed to understand the changing educational landscape in South Asia. Over the past couple of decades, there have been dramatic changes in the educational landscape of Pakistan with exponential increases in affordable "mom-and-pop" private schools; increasingly so in rural areas. These changes broadly hold true across the rest of South Asia as well, and represent an opportunity and a challenge for educational policy, from evaluating policy reform to understanding how the private sector can help educate the poor. Over the past five years, the LEAPS project has gathered detailed data each year on the educational universe in over a hundred randomly selected rural villages in Pakistani Punjab. As of 2007, LEAPS includes four rounds of detailed school, household, and teacher surveys for 800 schools, 2,000 households and over 5,000 teachers and tests of over 12,000 children.
Asim Khwaja, Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government is one of the main principals in this research project, which is a joint collaboration between researchers at Harvard, Pomona College and the World Bank. Read more...
All images copyright 2004 President and Fellows of Harvard College, Courtesy of the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University.
