Catarina de San Juan’s life reads like an epic – and her extraordinary story is little known. Born in South Asia during the early 17th century, she was captured by the Portuguese at age 8 and sold to ...

Procession on the occasion of a Durbar (audience) of the Mogul Emperor Akbar of India, which includes his sons, high Indian and British dignitaries, soldiers, elephants carrying the royal insignia ...

CU Boulder professor wins award for article showing how 1917 U.S. immigration law conjoined anti-Asian and antiradical politics Seema Sohi grew up in the San Joaquin Valley of California, where she ...

Asma Khalid travels to the American South West to tell the story of early South Asian migration. Asma Khalid travels to the American South West to tell the story of Mir Dad, a Muslim man from South ...

For decades, policymakers and scholars have been trained in the West and elsewhere to think of the countries of the Indian subcontinent as part of a coherent region: South Asia. Home to around a ...

The South Asian Studies (SAS) program at Princeton was first established in 2007, making it the youngest area studies program at the University. Its institution at the University came from much ...

This piece is part of a series of articles covering the medieval and early modern great powers of each of Asia’s regions: East Asia, Central and North Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and West Asia ...

The Manchester Museum in England was founded at the pinnacle of the British Empire. Now it is embracing the city’s South Asian population and reassessing the colonial past. The Manchester Museum is ...

In his new book, Dr Mubin Syed traces a line between colonial hunger and modern heart disease and diabetes across South Asia.