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CISA Announces 2007 Sardar Patel Award Winner

CISA Announces 2007 Sardar Patel Award Winner

Congratulations to Dr. Bhavani Raman, recipient of the 2007 Sardar Patel Award for the best dissertation submitted at any American university on the subject of modern India.
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Domesticating the Harem

A doctoral student in art history reconsiders 'zenana' (female household) imagery in 19th- and early 20th-century India.

Dedicated Graduates Spend Summer Improving Global Public Health

Three graduates will spend their summers, and beyond, working to improve the state of public health in far-flung corners of the globe.

Art and AIDS

AIDS/SIDA symposium mixes one part science and one part art to raise awareness about HIV prevention and the treatment of the disease. View a slideshow from the event.

The Rise of Asian Nations

In a Q&A with AsiaMedia's Debory Li, former Singapore diplomat Kishore Mahbubani discusses his latest book and the future of the Asian hemisphere.

Please Listen, People: Addressing HIV/AIDS in Bengali Scroll Paintings

on display at the Fowler Museum, March 16 through July 12, 2008


CISA Faculty Fellowship Recipients

A look at some of our faculty's projects for the upcoming year.

Remnants Point to an Urban Centre- Excavation Continues, Relics Unearthed at Sishupalgarh

A look at Professor Monica Smith's joint UCLA/Deccan College (Pune) archaeological research project at the ancient site of Sisupalgarh.

Music for a Goddess

A new release from CISA ethnomusicologists Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy and Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy

From Early Modern Indo-Persian Travels to the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture

A look at some of the recent and forthcoming publications by UCLA Faculty working on India and South Asia

Foremost Western Historian of India Publishes New Work on End of Colonial Period

UCLA Professor Emeritus Stanley Wolpert reflects on his career.

Museums in the Colony

CISA member Saloni Mathur, Assistant Professor in Art History at UCLA, has recently received a $248,700 grant from the prestigious J. Paul Getty Trust for a collaborative project on 'Museology and the Colony: The Case of India.'