About the Department

South Asia Studies Centre (SASC) established in 1963 is a premier advanced Area Studies institution in India. It is devoted to the study of South Asia Region (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and Maldives) covering historic-cultural, socio-economic and political aspects having the status of a University Department. It started M.Phil course and Ph.D. programme independently in 1985. The Centre is a multidisciplinary research institution. Being primarily an institution devoted to South Asian Studies it encourages in-depth understanding of the socio-economic and political phenomena of the South Asian region in general and study of the individual South Asian countries in particular. Post-graduate students of Political Science, Sociology, Economics and History (Modern) are admitted in M. Phil and Doctoral Research.

Infrastructural Facilities

The Centre has well equipped and developed Infrastructural facilities such as a Seminar hall, a library, a documentation cell along with a classroom and different electronic equipments.