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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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Yang Qu: Doctoral Fellowship + Young Scholar Award.

On October 3rd, the China Times Cultural Foundation announced the 10 recipients of this year’s Young Scholar Award on its website. Yang Qu won the top award “Ms. Yu Tsai Yuhui Special Award” and will receive a scholarship of USD 10,000 to support his dissertation research.

Yang, studying South Asian Studies with a secondary field in CompLit, also just received a Doctoral Fellowship over the summer for his research project, “Obsession with India: Literature, Spirituality, the Quest for Alternative Modernity in Early Twentieth Century China,” from The Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (CCKF)

https://www.chinatimes.com/realtimenews/20241003002599-260405?chdtv

http://www.cckf.org/en/news/2024052002

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The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute

(The Mittal Institute) engages in interdisciplinary research to advance and deepen the understanding of critical issues in South Asia and its relationship with the world.

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