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124: 222:'s Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS) - the others being the Centre for East Asian Studies, the Department of Ethnology, and the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies. The library and collections of the former SAI were merged with those of the three other constituent institutes of CATS to form the CATS library. The four constitutive institutes of CATS are situated next to each other, with the CATS library in their middle. 237: 225:
Like the other buildings of CATS, the current building housing SAI was built between 1869 and 1876. From then until 1945, these buildings served as a part of the Neues Akademisches Krankenhaus (New Academic Hospital) in Heidelberg. Thereafter, this hospital was gradually shifted to Neuenheimer Feld.
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Currently, SAI has seven departments, each headed by a professor: Development Economics, Anthropology, Geography, History of South Asia, Cultural and Religious History of South Asia (Classical Indology), Modern South Asian Languages and Literatures (Modern Indology), and Political Science. Each
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While scholars and research projects affiliated with SAI have worked in various parts of South Asian countries, the institute has had particularly long traditions of research in certain parts of South Asia. These include Bangladesh and
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In 2012, the dermatological clinic, which was based in the building that would later house SAI, was shifted to Neuenheimer Feld. The location of CATS is right next to the
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SAI has branch offices in New Delhi (India), Islamabad (Pakistan), Kathmandu (Nepal), and Colombo (Sri Lanka).
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department of SAI conducts research, at the professorial, postdoctoral, doctoral, and masters levels.
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The building housing the South Asia Institute since 2019, with the CATS library in the foreground.
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The building in Neuenheimer Feld that housed the South Asia Institute from 1962 till 2019.
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M.A. in Communication, Literature, and Media in Modern South Asian Languages (KLM)
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M.A. in Development, Environment, Societies, and History in South Asia (MADESH)
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https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/en/study/all-subjects/south-asian-studies
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are also often included in the work done at the South Asia Institute.
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Humanities and social-science research and teaching on South Asia
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SAI offers the following degrees fully devoted to South Asia:
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Centrum für Asienwissenschaften und Transkulturelle Studien
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M.A. in Cultural and Religious History of South Asia (KRS)
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In April 2019, SAI was shifted to the campus in the
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Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/en

Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg
Heidelberg
South Asia
Bangladesh
Bhutan
India
Maldives
Nepal
Pakistan
Sri Lanka
Afghanistan
Tibet
Heidelberg University
Werner Conze
Wilhelm Hahn
Neuenheimer Feld
Bergheim
Heidelberg
Heidelberg University
Bismarkplatz

Bengal
Hindu-Kush-Himalaya region
Delhi
Odisha
Punjab
south India

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