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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. SASNET affiliated researcher Therese Boje Mortensen recently published two articles in Sydasien magazine on the outsourcing of Indian government schemes to local NGOs and PM Modi's supporters in the ongoing elections. Government schemes in India reach far – but government jobs do notThe Indian state outsources a range

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/therese-boje-mortensen-published-two-articles-indian-politics - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Oxford graduate Thakkar arrived in Lund for a month-long fellowship with SASNET. Chirayu Thakkar graduated recently from the Modern South Asian Studies program from the University of Oxford. He is currently a graduate student in political science at the Central European University, Hungary. His primary interests are I

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-welcomes-research-fellow-chirayu-thakkar - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. SASNET affiliated researchers Vibodh Parthasarathi and Andreas Mattsson recently participated in two seminars in Belgium on media challenges in the Indian and European elections. Vibodh Parthasarathi and Andreas Mattsson, program director at LU School of Journalism, participated in a panel talk at the Press Club in ce

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-researchers-presented-collaborative-project-belgium - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Rishi Jha recently presented his paper on narratives of displacement and evictions of the urban poor in Mumbai at the Frontiers of Accumulation at the University of Copenhagen. On May 13, 2019, Rishi Jha, doctoral student and Lund University's School of Social Work and SASNET affiliated researcher, presented his lates

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-affiliated-researcher-presented-conference-university-copenhagen - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Chirayu Thakkar, currently visiting SASNET as a research fellow, published an on Modi's foreign policy in The Diplomat. In his article, that was published in The Diplomat's online format on 22 May 2019, Thakkar discusses the international but also the domestic rationale of PM Narendra Modi's "Look West" policy, aiming

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/article-sasnet-research-fellow-published-diplomat - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Admir Skodo has recently published a report on Afghanistan and the ongoing peace talks between the Talibans and USA in Världspolitikens Dagsfrågor. Afghanistan and the Taliban: Peace at what price?Peace talks have been going on last year between the United States and the Taliban for a solution to the long, bloody conf

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-affiliated-researcher-has-published-report-afghanistan - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. SASNET director Andreas Johansson moderated a session on European Perspectives on the Indo-Pacific. On Monday 3 June SASNET co-hosted the joint symposium Europe in the Indo-Pacific: Moving from Periphery to the Center? in Singapore. The symposium was an collaboration between, National University of Singapore – Institu

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-co-hosted-symposium-indo-pacific-singapore - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The South Asia across the Nordic Region Conference (SANR) 2019 took place on June 11 and 12 in Uppsala and had participants from various Swedish and foreign academic institutions. The 2019 SANR conference was hosted by Sasnet/Lund University, the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI), Stockholm, and Swedish

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-co-hosted-successful-nordic-south-asian-conference - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Isha arrived in early June and will work for SASNET as a post-doctoral researcher for the next two years. Isha Dubey graduated with a PhD in History from the School of Culture and Society at Aarhus University in October 2017 for her doctoral dissertation, The Urdu-speakers of Bangladesh and the Idea of ‘Home’: Migrati

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-welcomes-post-doc-isha-dubey - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. SASNET and the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) jointly organised a panel on current Indian domestic and foreign policy at this year's Almedalen. The talk is now availabke as a podcast. At the recent Almedalen week, SASNET and UI hosted a seminar on current Indian policies and their relevance for Sweden

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/podcast-seminar-almedalen-2019 - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Anni-Elina Vänskä will do an internship at SASNET during the autumn semester of 2019. Anni's work tasks will include event management, web and social media content management, photography, illustration, writing reports and articles as well as conducting research. Anni-Elina began specialising in South Asia during her

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/anni-elina-vanska-joins-sasnet - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The School of Journalism and Department of Strategic Communication in collaboration with SASNET and Reporters Without Borders Sweden host a full-day workshop about press freedom, journalism, and democracy at Mindpark, Helsingborg. South Asia is the world’s most densely populated region and among the poorest, and the m

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/workshop-challenges-media-south-asia - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Nordic Centre in India (NCI) is offering three different grants for scholars from NCI member universities to conduct research in India. As in previous years, the Nordic Centre in India, a consortium of leading universities and research institutions in the Nordic countries, will provide funding to a number of docto

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/nci-grants-research-visits-india-0 - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. SASNET's post-doctoral fellow Isha Dubey recently wrote an article on Kashmir's contested reality for The Conversation. In her article, Isha discusses the varying perceptions of present-day Kashmir - breathtaking tourist destination on the one hand and isolated military zone on the other - and wonders how the revocati

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-researcher-isha-dubey-publishes-piece-kashmir - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. As a result of the joint symposium on Europe in the Indo-Pacific region in Singapore in June, the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS) published a series of papers on South Asia. In June 2019 SASNET co-organised the joint symposium "Europe in the Indo-Pacific: Moving from Periphery to the Center?" in Singapore. The

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/institute-south-asian-studies-publishes-discussion-paper-series - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. SASNET affiliated researcher Kristina Myrvold will join the Center for Theology and Religious Studies as a guest professor in 2020. Kristina Myrvold, currently Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Linnaeus University, was awarded the Hedda Andersson Professorship for a least one year, starting in 2020. Myrvold

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/kristina-myrvold-joins-lund-university - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Andreas Johansson met with various South Asia experts and scholars to explore new possibilities for collaboration. SASNET Director Andreas Johansson visited Boston, US, at the end of September. He met with Professor Frank Korom, Deputy Director of the American Institute of Bangladeshi Studies (AIBS) and Professor John

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-director-visited-boston - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In October, SASNET invited international Afghanistan specialists to Lund for a 2-day conference to discuss security and migration issues. On 10 and 11 October 2019 SASNET successfully hosted a conference on Afghanistan with international experts and scholars. The two-day event started off with two public panels on “Se

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-conference-afghanistan - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. SASNET post-doc Isha Dubey attended and participated in a day-long seminar on October 23 at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) in Stockholm on India’s domestic economy and world trade. The event was jointly organized by UI, Sweden India Business Council (SIBC) and Business Sweden. The first part of th

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-researchers-joined-seminar-indian-economy - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. During her tenure Professor Patel, who is an expert on urban sociology, will be collaborating with SASNET as an affiliated scholar. Professor Sujata Patel, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, was awarded the prestigious Kerstin Hesselgren visiting professorship for 2021. Professor Patel will be placed at Umeå Universi

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sujata-patel-awarded-kerstin-hesselgren-visiting-professorship-2021 - 2026-05-05