http://www.international.ucla.edu/southasia/beta/ Our goal is to transform UCLA into one of the leading poles of integrated research activity on India and South Asia in the country. en-us Akhil Gupta, UCLA professor of anthropology, was interviewed Nov. 28 on the BBC radio program "Thinking Allowed" about his new book “Red Tape: Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India,” which explores how India's state bureaucracy hinders the fight against poverty. http://www.international.ucla.edu/southasia/beta/article.asp?parentid=129183 Aruna Roy and Nikhil Dey to discuss "The Idea of India" on Sept. 22 http://www.international.ucla.edu/southasia/beta/article.asp?parentid=127763 A list of courses on India and South Asia offered across UCLA departments, Spring 2012 http://www.international.ucla.edu/southasia/beta/article.asp?parentid=125708 Professor Akhil Gupta gives back to his home country through research that he hopes will improve life and economic development. http://www.international.ucla.edu/southasia/beta/article.asp?parentid=124485 Sanjay Subrahmanyam, UCLA’s Doshi Professor of Pre-Modern Indian History and former director of the UCLA Center for India and South Asia, is quoted in an Indian Express column about India's constitution. http://www.international.ucla.edu/southasia/beta/article.asp?parentid=123496 A list of courses on India and South Asia offered across UCLA departments, Winter 2012. http://www.international.ucla.edu/southasia/beta/article.asp?parentid=122870 A list of courses on India and South Asia offered across UCLA departments, Fall 2011. http://www.international.ucla.edu/southasia/beta/article.asp?parentid=122433 India West reported Monday a campus event organized by UCLA's Center for India and South Asia at which Yale professor Tariq Thachil was honored with the Sardar Patel Award, administered by the center, for his research on modern India. Center director Sanjay Subrahmanyam, UCLA's Doshi Professor of Pre-Modern Indian History, was quoted. http://www.international.ucla.edu/southasia/beta/article.asp?parentid=121333 Congratulations to Dr. Tariq Thachil, recipient of the 2010 Sardar Patel Award, for the best dissertation submitted at any American university on the subject of modern India. http://www.international.ucla.edu/southasia/beta/article.asp?parentid=120970 Watch video of CISA Director Sanjay Subrahmanyam delivering Vanderbilt University's annual Byrn Lecture on April 6. The Byrn Lecture is sponsored by the Vanderbilt Department of History. http://www.international.ucla.edu/southasia/beta/article.asp?parentid=120716 Sanjay Subrahmanyam, who holds the Navin and Pratima Doshi Chair in Indian History and is founding director of the UCLA Center for India and South Asia, received a fellowship to support his research on French perceptions of Asian culture. http://www.international.ucla.edu/southasia/beta/article.asp?parentid=120715 The esteemed postcolonial feminist historian's talk this winter, entitled "Once Upon a Time in the Present," proposed an alternate ontological and epistemological orientation. http://www.international.ucla.edu/southasia/beta/article.asp?parentid=120600 A list of courses on India and South Asia offered across UCLA departments, Spring 2011. http://www.international.ucla.edu/southasia/beta/article.asp?parentid=119883 A list of courses on India and South Asia offered across UCLA departments, Winter 2011. http://www.international.ucla.edu/southasia/beta/article.asp?parentid=118590 The London-based literary magazine Granta has dedicated an issue to the writing and art of Pakistan. At a recent campus event, Granta editor John Freeman and CISA faculty members agree that this is no isolated event. http://www.international.ucla.edu/southasia/beta/article.asp?parentid=118187