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South Asia Without Borders Collaborative Research Program
The South Asia Initiative is committed to producing new scholarship that will contribute to a greater theoretical understanding of the region. To this end, a broad contingent of Harvard and non-Harvard scholars that included historians, economists, political scientists, anthropologists, policy experts, and literary and cultural studies theorists developed a detailed research plan. Titled “South Asia without Borders”, the plan comprises six research modules that aim to identify South Asia's most pressing problems, offer innovative approaches for solving them, and set an agenda for future study and public action. The research modules are:
Nation, Reason, and Religion in South Asia: Towards New Conceptions of Sovereignty and Citizenship
Sugata Bose (Harvard University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences) and Ayesha Jalal (Tufts University) in consultation with Homi Bhabha (Harvard, FAS) and Amartya Sen (Harvard, FAS)
Partition, Migration and Borders
part 1 - "The Big March": Migratory Consequences of the Indian Sub-continent Partition
Asim Ijaz Khwaja (Harvard, Kennedy School of Government) and Atif Mian (University of Chicago)
part 2 - India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh: The Historical Demography of Partition
Jennifer Leaning (Harvard School of Public Health) with Sharon Stanton Russell (MIT), Kenneth Hill (Johns Hopkins University), and William Seltzer (Fordham University)
part 3 - Border Culture in South Asia
Sugata Bose, Ayesha Jalal, Homi Bhabha (Harvard, FAS), and Tahmima Anam (Harvard Grad Student)
Interpretations of the Past: History, Education, and the Worldwide Web
part 1 - The Ownership of the Past
Amartya Sen
part 2 - South Asia: a Polyphonic History
Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal
Sites of Translation
Ajantha Subramanian, Smita Lahiri and Engseng Ho (all Harvard, FAS)
Click here for final report.
Social Capability Formation in South Asia
Amartya Sen, Lincoln Chen (Harvard, FAS), Sabina Alkire (Harvard, FAS) and Shiva Kumar
Business without Borders
Tarun Khanna (Harvard Business School), David Bloom (HSPH) and Ramana Nanda (MIT Grad Student)
Click here for final report.
Grant and Internship Programs
SOUTH ASIA INITIATIVE TATA UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE
STUDY GRANTS:
South Asia Initiative (SAI) Tata Study Grants are available to Harvard undergraduates across all disciplines for research or field work in South Asia, and Harvard graduate students across all disciplines and schools of the University whose master's or doctoral theses are focused on and involve research or field work in South Asia. Grants are available only to students continuing at Harvard in the 2008-9 academic year.
The deadline for application is Tuesday, February 26th, 2008.
Grantees may use their award any time during the academic year following receipt of the SAI grant.
Full details of requirements are available on SRTG Common Application Process page here.
Please note a separate process is required for the SAI Internship Program (see below).
To see a list of 2007 grantees and their topics, click here.
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SOUTH ASIA INITIATIVE SERVICE IN INDIA
SUMMER INTERNSHIPS
The South Asia Initiative offers internship funding to Harvard undergraduates, for service in India during the summer of 2008. Funding covers airfare and basic room and board. Students are expected to set up their own internships.
Upon return, students may write a related research paper for academic credit.
Students with no background or experience in the Indian Subcontinent are encouraged to apply.
To view and/or download an application form, click here.
To apply, submit to the South Asia Initiative's offices by 12:00 noon, Tuesday, April 8th, 2008.
To view a list of 2007 recipients and their work, click here.
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SOUTH ASIA INITIATIVE FACULTY GRANTS
The South Asia Initiative is pleased to announce that it is accepting proposals from Harvard University faculty in the field of South Asian studies for use in summer 2008 or AY 2008-2009.
The purpose of these grants is to promote South Asian studies across the university and to stimulate disciplinary and interdisciplinary research.
All applications must ordinarily be led by one or more permanent members of the Harvard University faculty at the assistant, associate, or full professorial rank who will be continuing in that capacity at Harvard for the duration of the project, and who will personally take part in the activities sponsored by the grant. Visiting professors and scholars who will be at Harvard for the duration of the project may take part.
Applications are due on Friday, February 29, 2008. Submissions are sought in the following three categories:
1) Travel grants to research locations (a maximum of $5,000). Preference will be given in this category to junior tenure-track faculty.
2) Individual research grants (a maximum of $10,000). Funding will be available for individual research projects and may be used for expenses such as travel and research assistance. Funds may not be used for salary replacement or to cover expenses for publication or manuscript preparation, such as subventions or indexing.
3) Collaborative research grants (a maximum of $15,000). Funding will be available for collaborative research projects involving two or more faculty. Inter-departmental and inter-School collaboration is encouraged, but not required. Funds may be used for expenses such as travel and research assistance as well as workshops directly related to the promotion of scholarly research. Funds may not be used for salary replacement or to cover expenses for publication or manuscript preparation, such as subventions or indexing.
Proposals (no more than five single-spaced pages), including a detailed budget, should be submitted to Ian Jackson either at ijackson@fas.harvard.edu or at the SAI office on the 4th Floor of CGIS South Building at 1730 Cambridge Street. Applicants will receive an e-mail confirmation when their proposal is received.
Candidates will be notified of decisions by early April. Successful candidates will be expected to provide a short 2-page report upon completion of their project to the SAI Steering Committee summarizing the work made possible by this grant.
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South Asia Initiative Tsunami Reconstruction Project, 2005-6 Photo Gallery now online
In July 2005, SAI Assistant Director Rena Fonseca toured a dozen NGO's and villages in Tamilnadu for three weeks with an SAI student team - Project Researcher and Co-Producer Saritha Komatireddy '05, and Travis Wood '07 and Adam Parker '08, concentrators in Visual and Environmental Studies, who filmed and edited the documentary.
Click here to view a photo gallery of their work.
Harvard Gazette Article Announcing 2004-2005 SAI Grant Recipients
