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June 7th, 2016, 04:47 PM
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May 13th, 2017, 01:43 PM
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Hi I would like to know about the history of the South Asia at the University of Pennsylvania as well as the lits of the courses offered and also the standing faculty for South Asia at the University of Pennsylvania?
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May 13th, 2017, 01:47 PM
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The Study of South Asia at the University of Pennsylvania has a history that extends back over a century. Eras of the nation's top researchers of South Asian writing, society, history, craftsmanship and religion have been prepared at Penn. Sanskrit was learned at Penn as ahead of schedule as the 1890s and a full time Sanskrit position was first settled in 1912 with the arrangement of Franklin Edgerton. Penn kept on being a pioneer in the field of South Asia contemplates in the 70s, as orders outside the division (History, Politicial Science, Anthropology and English) presented positions concentrating on South Asia. At present, one can ponder Sanskrit, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Panjabi, Malayalam, Marathi and Gujarati at Penn, and in addition take courses in the orders of History, Literature, Anthropology Art History and Religious Studies. South Asia Collection and Reading Rooms The essentialness of the gathering The University has a standout amongst the most critical and biggest accumulations of research material identifying with the investigation of South Asia in the United States. Beginning with the nineteenth century, when Sanskrit was first instructed at the college, the libraries have kept on growing materials pertinent for the investigation of the area. The original copies and accumulations The library holds different uncommon accumulations including some that are housed in the Kislak Special Collections Center on account of their interesting, uncommon, or delicate nature The Indic compositions gathering is the biggest in North America, and one of the biggest in the western half of the globe. More than 90% of these original copies are in Sanskrit. The original copies are frequently utilized as a part of classes, and together with other composition and paper possessions of the University Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, constitute a critical corpus of writings in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and different dialects of South and South-East Asia.  Courses for Fall 2017   Standing Faculty Daud Ali Associate Professor daudali@sas.upenn.edu Williams Hall 804 Jamal J. Elias Walter H. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities jjelias@sas.upenn.edu Michael Meister W. Norman Brown Professor, History of Art mmeister@sas.upenn.edu 201 Jaffe Building 215-898-3248 Lisa Mitchell Associate Professor lmitch@sas.upenn.edu Office: 801 Williams Hall (820 Williams Hall for mail) 215-898-8816 or 215-898-7475 Deven M. Patel Associate Professor devenp@sas.upenn.edu Williams Hall 814 215-898-7475 Teren Sevea Assistant Professor tsevea@sas.upenn.edu Williams Hall 805 Davesh Soneji Associate Professor dsoneji@upenn.edu Williams Hall Room 815 Ramya Sreenivasan Associate Professor ramyas@sas.upenn.edu 815 Williams Hall 215-898-7431 Contact: The Department of South Asia Studies University of Pennsylvania 820 Williams Hall 355 South 36th Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305 Phone: 215-898-7475 Fax: 215-573-2138 |
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