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South Asian Studies is an interdisciplinary minor focusing on an important region of the nonwestern world including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the Maldives.

Almost twenty-five percent of the world’s people live in South Asia, and they offer us a rich tapestry of culture, history and socioeconomic contexts. Since 1970, when the faculty approved its creation as the college’s first interdisciplinary studies program, the South Asian Program has sought to:

• Introduce and explore South Asia and its rich cultural heritage.
• Explore aspects that are distinctive to South Asia.
• Explore the linkages between South Asia and the rest of the world.
• Explore from multiple disciplines a diversity of themes focusing on South Asia.
• Facilitate a deeper understanding of at least one theme related to South Asia.
• Facilitate students gaining first-hand academic experiences in South Asia.
• Facilitate students learning South Asian languages.