Csas Edinburgh

We welcome you to the community of South Asian Studies in Edinburgh. We are the major UK Centre focused on the affairs of the countries of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

CSAS brings together South Asian expertise across Edinburgh University to create a lively environment supporting the interdisciplinary study of the subcontinent as a whole. Outwith the University, the Centre seeks to relate South Asian Studies to the wider community, through links with the Scottish Parliament, NGO's and major educational and cultural organisations in South Asia and Scotland.
We adminiter both junior and senior visiting Fellowships and are committed to forstering links and exchange programmes with other Universities. These include personal and research links with staff in the Universities of Delhi (JNU, Jamia Milia and Delhi University itself), Lahore, Colombo, Peshwar, Calcutta and Chennai. The Centre has porticularly strong links with South Asianist working elsewhere in Scotland (notably, the Universities of GLasgow, Strathcylde, St. Andrews, Aberdeen and Stirling) and with centres of Asian Stdies on the continent Europe.