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The diversity and shared histories of South Asia's cultures, religions, languages and nations are an important area of engagement for us in the world today. While India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and neighboring nation-states can be identified on the map as making up a recognizable geographic region, the equally vital diasporic communities from South Asia and their globally dispersed networks extend our understanding of an old and yet changing South Asia.

The South Asian Studies Concentration, and the Brown in India Program are only two of the formal ways in which students can focus on and learn about South Asia. Faculty with teaching and research interests in South Asia and South Asian languages, an array of student organizations reflecting the diversity of South Asia itself, the Haffenreffer Anthropology Museum, RISD, and the RISD Museum, come together to provide scholarly and cultural resources for the study of South Asia at Brown.