The Forum for South Asia Studies and the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, jointly hosted the 2016 ICCR Lecture Governance, Democracy and Development in India by Professor Amit Prakash, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and ICCR Chair Professor at Uppsala University on 24 May 2016.

Anju Saxena, Professor at Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University will deliver a key note speech with the title “Indo-Aryan in typological and area perspective” at the 32^nd South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable Conference (SALA-32) which will take place at the Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, 27-29 April 2016. 

On Wednesday, March 23, 2016 Professor Amit Dey from University of Calcutta and Visiting Professor at the Department of History, Uppsala University gave a lecture on the topic: The Image of the Prophet Muhammad in East Indian and Bangladeshi Folk Tradition: A Historical Perspective.

New book by Professor Margaret Hunt on "The English East India Company at the Height of Mughal Expansion - A Soldier's Diary of the 1689 Siege of Bombay, with Related Documents."

Professor Amit Prakash has just arrived at Uppsala University, taking up his position as ICCR visiting Professor. Prakash is Professor at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. During his time in Uppsala Professor Prakash is affiliated to the Department of Peace and Conflict Research and hosted by Professor Ashok Swain.

"Don't let commercial interests prevent legitimate criticism" says Ashok Swain ahead of Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven's visit to Mumbai, India in Dagens Nyheter.

Sten Widmalm, Professor at Department of Government, Uppsala University, just returned from a trip to Pakistan and India. In this pice for Svenska Dagbladet - SvD, Widmalm offers some reflections on the two countries democratic development and growing tensions between different groups.

http://www.svd.se/populism-och-intolerans-hotar-freden-i-sydasien/om/sakerhetsradet 

FSAS seminar with Professor Saleem H. Ali, Chair in Sustainable Resource Development, The University of Queensland, Australia was held Thursday, 12 November 2015, 10.15-12:00, Sal 2, Gamla torget 3, Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University.

The Forum for South Asia Studies at Uppsala University is pleased to inform that two scholars that are working on South Asia have been promoted professor. Heinz-Werner Wessler, who holds the chair of Indology at Uppsala University and specializes in modern South Asian languages and cultures, will give his inaugural lecture on Thursday, 12 November at 14:20 in lecture hall IX (main university building) on the topic "Indiens enhet i mångfald: Traditionell mångkultur mot modern nationalism?." Kristine Höglund, Professor at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, has researched Sri Lanka extensively along many other cases. She will give her lecture on Friday, 13 November at 15:00 in the University main aula on the topic of "Demokrati i våldets skugga."

Ashok Swain, Professor in Peace and Conflict Research at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research | Uppsala University, weights in on India's economic blockade of Nepal. 

As one among 40 awardees, half of them from abroad, Heinz Werner Wessler (professor of Indology, Uppsala university) was honoured with the “Vishwa Hindi Samman” (World Hindi Award) during the 10^th “Vishwa Hindi Sammelan” (World Hindi Conference) in Bhopal 10.-12.9.2015. The award was handed over by home minister Rajnath Singh.

On Monday, 31 August, Paula Hanasz, from the Australian National University presented her research on water cooperation in the Ganges-Brahmaputra Basin to students and researchers at Uppsala University. 

On Tuesday, 26 May 2015, the Hugo Valentin Centre hosted a seminar on Tibet's minority languages, supported by funding from the Forum for South Asian Studies. 

On 4 May 2015 the Forum for South Asia Studies (FSAS) at Uppsala University had the great pleasure to welcome national and international guests in the 2015 FSAS conference "Paths to the future for India and Pakistan."

On Monday, 27 April 2015 at 13:15, Engelska Parken, Building 1, Room 1-1060, we have the great pleasure to welcome Professor Arun Bandopadhyay for a guest lecture at Uppsala University. Professor Bandopadhyay, who teaches at the University of Calcutta will talk about "Technical Education, Swadeshi and Development in Bengal in the early twentieth century." 

On 30 March 2015 the Forum for South Asia studies in collarboration with Uppsala Forum on Democracy, Peace and Justice, SLU, and UF-Uppsala had the pleasure of welcoming Professor Ramu Manivannan, Head of the Department of Political Science at the University of Madras, Chennai, India. In his lecture Professor Manivannan dealed with the topic "Transitional Justice and  Human Rights crisis in Sri Lanka."

We were excited to welcome Dr Kalpana Kochar, Deputy Director, Asia and Pacific Department, international Monetary Fund at the Forum for South Asia Studies. Mrs Kochar discussed "Emerging Markets" with Dr Ranjula Bali Swain, Ambassador Banashri Bose Harrison, Professor Nils Gottfries, Professor in Nationalekonomi and other scholars at the Department of Economics at Uppsala University on March 6, 2015.

On 4 March we were honoured to discuss Nepal's Peace Process with Dr Uddhab Pyakurel from Kathmandu University. The guest lecture entiteled 'Nepal’s Peace Process - Democratisation and Constitution Making in Nepal since 2006' was delivered at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University.

The Forum for South Asia Studies was honred to organise a guest lecture by Prof Siddharth Singh on "Engaged Buddhism in India: Social Engagement or Self-absorption?", 2 March 2015, 10:15-12:00, Hugo Valentin Room, The Hugo Valentin Center, Engelska Parken, Uppsala. Prof Siddharth Singh is Visiting Professor, Chair of Indian Studies, Uppsala University, Professor, Dept. of Pali & Buddhist Studies, Banaras Hindu University.

The Forum for South Asia Studies at Uppsala University invites you to participate in the 2015 FSAS conference, May 4, 2015 in Uppsala with a special focus on "Paths to the future for India and Pakistan." Keynote presentations by Christophe Jaffrelot (SciencesPo), Mahvish Shami (London School of Economics) and Ian Talbot (University of Southampton). In addition we are organising workshops for South Asia scholars in Sweden. The keynote presentations are open to the general public.

Professor Siddharth Singh, first Indian Council of Cultural Relations (ICCR) visiting professor at Uppsala University, presented his views on "Indian Studies in India and abroad: Challenges and Prospects" in a public ICCR lecture on Friday, 12 December 2014 at the university main building in Uppsala. 
 

On Friday, 21 November, the Forum for South Asia Studies at Uppsala University held its annual workshop at Museum Gustavianum. The goal of the workshop was to provide a forum for new and long term scholars researching South Asia at Uppsala University's institutions to meet and exchange about their respective research agenda. 

On 15 November 2014 the Forum for South Asia Studies participated in an exciting day of lectures and fun activities at Museum Gustavianum. 

Erika Forsberg, researcher at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, was awarded a three year project grant by the Swedish Research Councils (Special call for Development Research) to study inequality and insurgency in India. 

Prof Siddharth Singh, Head of the Dept. for Pali and Buddhist Studies at Banaras Hindu University (BHU), has started his period as ICCR visiting professor in Uppsala. He will stay about six months in Sweden. He is affiliated to the Dept. for Linguistics and Philology during his stay.

Uppsala University Library is currently offering test access to the South Asia Archive. Employes and students at Uppsala University will be able to access and test the resource until 4 November.

The Forum for South Asia Studies at Uppsala University notes with great appreciation that two outstanding South Asian characters have been awarded the Nobel Peace Price for the year 2014. Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzay have been awarded the price for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education. We are delighted to share the initial reactions of Dr Ranjula Bali Swain, Professor Heinz Werner Wessler and Professor Ashok Swain.

On Thursday, 9 October 2014 Asha Mukherjee, Vishva Bharati Universitet, Shantiniketan, India, presented a guest lecture "Women, Dharma and Social Justice in India: Utopia and Reality." The event was organised by the Deaprtment of Linguistic and Philology in cooperation with the Forum for South Asia Studies. 

"Kulturnatten" (cultural night) is a cultural festival all over Uppsala on the second Saturday in September. Like in the two years before, the FSAS participated in the Indian Bazar on 13. September. In our tent in the center of the town on Östra Ågatan we presented tools to learn Devnagari and Nastaliq scripts and put a selection of the posters from the "Poster women" exhibition on display that we had shown in a larger exhibition in Blåsenhus in spring. 

On 28 May 2014 the Forum for South Asia Studies in cooperation with the Department of Government organised a roundtable dicussion on the Indian Elections. Brief introductions were given by Ashok Swain, Professor at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research and Sten Widmalm, Professor at the Department of Government. 

In May Heinz Werner Wessler, professor in Indology at Uppsala University, presented a lecture under the title "Jewish literature and identity in contemporary India." The event was jointly organised with the Forum for Jewish Studies and The Hugo Valentin Centre. 

On 23 May 2014, Professor T.V. Paul gave a lecture at Uppsala University and presented his new book “The Warrior State - Pakistan in the Contemporary World.” Paul is James McGill Professor of International Relations in the department of Political Science at McGill University. The lecture took place at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research. The Forum for South Asia Studies had the privilege to enable several Master students, PhD candidates, and scholars of Uppsala University to discuss peace, conflict and development in Pakistan together with Professor Paul, MacGill University, Professor Sten Widmalm, Uppsala University, and Professor Ashok Swain, Uppsala University.

On 7 May the Forum for South Asia Studies, Uppsala University and the Indian Embassy hosted several events in honour of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1913. On this occasion a bust of Rabindranath Tagore was unveiled on campus. In the afternoon, three remarkable lectures discussed Rabindranath Tagore and his relation to Sweden. 

Professor Jamal Malik presented a guest lecture on 16 May 2014 at 10:15 about Andaman in Muslim Cultural Memory. The case of Fazl-e Haqq Khairabadi. Professor Malik visited Uppsala University on invitation of the Forum for South Asia Studies. 

On Friday, 25 April 2014 the Forum for South Asia Studies is opening a poster exhibition won the women's movement in India. At 14:15 Alessandra Consolaro will introduce to the exhibition with a short lecture at Blåsenhus, Gunnar Johanssonsalen (BH/14:K1209). The exhibition will move by 6 May to Engelska Parken, Entréplanen hus 16 for two more weeks.

Representatives from the University of Liverpool, UK and National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan have visited the Froum for South Asia Studies in April. 

On Friday, 11 April 2014 at 10:00 the Forum for South Asia Studies at Uppsala University hosted a talk by Dr S.Y. Qureishi, the former election commissioner of India, at Uppsala University. Dr Qureishi spoke in front of some 80 guests about “Conducting Elections in a Plural Democracy”, and was joined by Ambassador Maria Leissner, Secretary General at Community of Democracies, for a lively discussion. 

On January 22, 2013 a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed between Uppsala University and the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) for a Chair of Indian Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Uppsala University. The agreement involves visiting professors from India, who will be residing at Uppsala university for one semester and participate in academic activities at various faculties. The Embassy of India, the Forum for South Asia Studies and the Secretariate for International Relations at Uppsala University where instrumental in promoting this partnership. 

What explains female participation in violent armed groups? Social scientists have productively focused on recruitment into violent groups yet none has gone beyond the initial moment of joining to examine the trajectory of women once ensconced within a rebel group.

 What is time poverty in the context of urban Indian middle class of Delhi in 21st century ? In the 1950s, one male member with an 8-to-10-hours day job was somehow able to provide for a family of four or five children and extended family members.

On Monday, 3 February 2014, the former Chair of the Forum for South Asia Studies, Professor Gunnel Cederlöf, presented her new book “Founding an Empire on India’s North-Eastern Frontiers” at a lecture and book launch. The event was organised by Mind & Nature, a lecture series organised by the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History at Uppsala University.