#India

Learning to Teach India through Travel

The participants in CAORC’s 2019 faculty development seminar to India. Karen Guerrero, Assistant Professor at the Mary Lou Fulton...

Water and Women in Urban India

Across all segments of Indian society, women play critical roles in helping conserve and manage increasingly limited water resources....

Wildlife in the City: Challenging the Nature-Culture Binary

Janet Armitage (left) and Janny Li (right) on a sunrise elephant ride to Amber Fort in Jaipur. In this essay, Janny Li, a 2019...

Teachers as Students: The Power of Experiential Learning in India’s Growing Cities

The India Faculty Development Seminar group with Dr. Balasubramaniam “Only when we take a comprehensive and ecosystem approach to our...

Multi-Country Fellowships at 25: The Colonial Political Economy of Trans-Frontier Trade through Pesh

This essay is Part Five in a series commemorating the 25th anniversary of CAORC's Multi-Country Research Fellowship Program. Read Part...

Exploring Urban Sustainability through India's Cities: Community College Faculty Development Sem

Exploring Urban Sustainability through India's Cities CAORC-AIIS Community College Faculty Development Seminar India: January 2-18, 2019...

Students of South Asian Language Programs Enjoy Lasting Benefits, AIIS Survey Shows

AIIS Hindi student Emma Leiken attends the wedding of a friend in Kolkata The American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS), CAORC’s member...

From Kabul to Kolkata: AAS Hosts Photo Exhibit

Held in conjunction with its Annual Conference, the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) invites you to the opening of the photography...

South Asia ORCs Organize Mumbai Conference on Colonialism and Globalization

The cultural organization Jnanapravaha Mumbai hosted the conference “Mountstuart Elphinstone: Between Local and Global Forces” on April...

Congratulations to AIIS' Director General Purnima Mehta on making The Economist's Global Div

The American Institute of Indian Studies' General-Director Purnima Mehta was selected by The Economist as one of the top 50 diversity...

AIIS Junior Fellow Rehanna Kheshgi Performs on Tour with Bihu Performers

American Institute of Indian Studies Junior Fellow and graduate student at the University of Chicago Rehanna Kheshgi has been studying...