Published 9 June 2021 The project "A Nation and its Fault Lines" was launched in June 2021 and is led by SASNET researchers Dr. Amrita Ghosh and Dr. Isha Dubey. The project focuses on the historical ruptures within the Indian nation since the Partition of 1947, 1971 and the present, which includes the long Kashmir conflict as a painful legacy of colonial border demarcations and the construction of

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-sasnet-research-project-partition-and-its-aftereffects - 2025-06-13

Published 29 July 2021 The issue, which is the result of a workshop at Lund University in 2020, is now available online. The latest issue of the Asian Ethnology journal, published in July 2021, features essays and reviews exploring various aspects of nationalism in the South Asian region. Links to the articles of Asian Ethnology 80 (1) can be found here. The articles are the joint outcome of a two

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/special-issue-asian-ethnology-south-asian-nationalisms - 2025-06-13

By andreas [dot] johansson [at] sasnet [dot] lu [dot] se (Andreas Johansson) - published 16 August 2021 On August 12, 2021, The Swedish Institute of International Affairs’ (UI) South Asia Initiative and Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) at Lund University released Indienpodden (the India Podcast) which brings experts from South Asia and Sweden together to discuss different aspects of de

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-podcast-zooms-democracy-india - 2025-06-13

By andreas [dot] johansson [at] sasnet [dot] lu [dot] se (Andreas Johansson) - published 10 November 2021 Ted Svensson is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, Lund University. He has worked at Lund University since 2009 and he obtained his PhD at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom. His research has consistently revolved around issues pertaining to South Asia, often wi

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-welcomes-ted-svensson - 2025-06-13

By andreas [dot] johansson [at] sasnet [dot] lu [dot] se (Andreas Johansson) - published 12 November 2021 The USI Global Studies Program and the Department of World Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern Indiana has invited SASNET researcher Amrita Ghosh to give a talk on the specter of colonial violence. Abstract of the lecture  The Specter of Colonial Violence: The Strangler Vine a

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-researcher-amrita-ghosh-invited-give-talk-global-salon-speaker-series - 2025-06-13

By andreas [dot] johansson [at] sasnet [dot] lu [dot] se (Andreas Johansson) - published 22 November 2021 The SASNET director, Andreas Johansson, published an article on Islam in South Asia in the book Islam -En religionsvetenskaplig introduktion, edited by Susanne Olsson and Simon Sorgenfrei. Read more about the book here (In Swedish).

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/andreas-johansson-published-article-islam-south-asia - 2025-06-13

By ulrika [dot] liard_wedin [at] innovation [dot] lu [dot] se (Ulrika Liard Wedin) - published 25 January 2022 Ted Svensson is, since January 2022, taking over the position as director of SASNET. Former director Andreas Johansson will continue to be affiliated with SASNET, mainly through a research project on the theme religion and politics in Sri Lanka. In 2000, the Swedish development agency (SI

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By ulrika [dot] liard_wedin [at] innovation [dot] lu [dot] se (Ulrika Liard Wedin) - published 17 February 2022 A Nation and its Fault Lines, workshop February 25, 2022 SASNET will host a one-day workshop – A Nation and its Fault Lines – on February 25, 2022. Jointly conceptualised and organised by SASNET-affiliated researchers Amrita Ghosh and Isha Dubey, the workshop constitutes the culminating

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/workshop-nation-and-its-fault-lines-organised-isha-dubey-and-amrita-ghosh-0 - 2025-06-13

By ulrika [dot] liard_wedin [at] innovation [dot] lu [dot] se (Ulrika Liard Wedin) - published 21 February 2022 During 2021 SASNET has conducted a wide range of activities to bolster South Asia research and research related accomplishments at Lund University. SASNET has collaborated with several organizations within Lund University but also with organizations from all over the country through webi

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-activity-report-2021-published - 2025-06-13

By ulrika [dot] liard_wedin [at] innovation [dot] lu [dot] se (Ulrika Liard Wedin) - published 14 March 2022 Photo: Pixabay During the year 2022, SASNET organizes a digital lecture series on Indian religions in collaboration with the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies (CTR) at Lund University and the Nordic Centre in India (NCI) in Delhi. The digital lecture series is one of the projects fu

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lund-lectures-indian-religions - 2025-06-13

Published 21 March 2022 Liminal Urban Dwelling captures Mumbai’s most significant resettlement program and exemplifies the racialized housing forms for the poor population in the urban zones that are deemed unfit for human habitation. The exhibition comprises ten photographs, as seen and suggested by the community, that captures photographic representation of everyday encounters of environment, sp

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/exhibition-lund-liminal-urban-dwelling - 2025-06-13

By ulrika [dot] liard_wedin [at] innovation [dot] lu [dot] se (Ulrika Liard Wedin) - published 3 May 2022 From this year onwards, the Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) will award an annual Best South Asia Thesis Award for an excellent Bachelor or Master thesis in the humanities or social sciences (broadly conceived), which has been submitted and defended by a student at Lund University.

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/best-south-asia-thesis-award-20212022 - 2025-06-13

By ulrika [dot] liard_wedin [at] innovation [dot] lu [dot] se (Ulrika Liard Wedin) - published 5 May 2022 Photo: David Peterson In a new article, published in The Conversation, SASNET affiliated researcher Andreas Johansson writes about the recent protests in Sri Lanka. -The article tries to analyse the possible implications of the economic crisis in Sri Lanka with a focus on the recent ethnic ten

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-article-about-protests-sri-lanka - 2025-06-13

By sandra [dot] jakobsson [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Sandra Jakobsson) - published 10 November 2022 SASNET invites Lund University PhD students to apply for two travel grants. The deadline is the 31st of January 2023. Each grant amounts to a maximum value of 25 000 SEK (direct costs) and shall be used to cover travel expenses such as flight tickets, accommodation, and visa fees. Eligibility crit

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/south-asia-travel-grants-lund-university-phd-students - 2025-06-13

By ulrika [dot] liard_wedin [at] innovation [dot] lu [dot] se (Ulrika Liard Wedin) - published 15 June 2022 Maryam Nastar, researcher at Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS), and Rashmi B. Prasad, Associate Professor at Lund University Diabetes Centre, receive the first two SASNET grants intended to support individual researchers at Lund University in their writing of researc

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/two-new-sasnet-grants-support-writing-research-applications - 2025-06-13

By ulrika [dot] liard_wedin [at] innovation [dot] lu [dot] se (Ulrika Liard Wedin) - published 22 June 2022 The Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) invites Lund University researchers who are in the process of putting together and submitting a major national or international research application to apply for a new round of planning grants. Examples of such applications include the EU fram

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/planning-grants-submission-major-research-application - 2025-06-13

By sandra [dot] jakobsson [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Sandra Jakobsson) - published 20 September 2022 Karl Gustafsson, Julie Yu-Wen Chen and Catarina Kinnvall at the seminar. The seminar took place on the 14 September in collaboration with the Centre for East and Southeast Asian Studies (ACE) at Lund University. The seminar brought together three experts on the politics of Asia to discuss how the

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/first-seminar-semester-how-will-russias-invasion-ukraine-affect-geopolitics-asia - 2025-06-13

By sandra [dot] jakobsson [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Sandra Jakobsson) - published 7 October 2022 Renewable energy, interviews with former Maoist women combatants, and urban development in Mumbai. SASNET’s Annual Symposium offered a full day of presentations of ongoing research, ranging from everyday transactions at New Delhi’s open markets to the issue of shrinking spaces for civil society orga

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-symposium-2022 - 2025-06-13

By sandra [dot] jakobsson [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Sandra Jakobsson) - published 9 November 2022 Professor Ruwanpura presenting at the panel debate. Photo. Under the heading "What's happening in Sri Lanka", SASNET invited two researchers from the University of Gothenburg; Kanchana N Ruwanpura, Professor at Human Geography, and Camilla Orjuela, Professor at the School of Global Studies, to take

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/they-gave-their-perspectives-what-happening-sri-lanka - 2025-06-13

By sandra [dot] jakobsson [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Sandra Jakobsson) - published 9 November 2022 Professor Kinnvall receives the SASNET planning grant for her project idea on "Dismantling Democracy: Insecurity, Emotions and Authoritarian Populism". She describes how her project intend to develop a novel approach to the study of insecurity and emotions by highlighting the co-production of insec

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/catarina-kinnvall-receives-sasnets-planning-grant - 2025-06-13