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Explore South Asian Studies at Harvard

The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute

We emphasize a rigorous approach to South Asian texts and traditions, the cultural, intellectual, and social practices that they inform, and the diverse disciplinary perspectives that are needed to study and write about them.

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