Centre for South Asian Studies

Centre for South Asian Studies

Study at the Centre for South Asian Studies

The Centre offers a wide range of courses at the undergraduate level and programs at the postgraduate level. There is a diverse community of students and doctoral candidates spread across several schools and departments. 

Undergraduate students across the university can select a range of courses which provide significant content on South Asia:

The following courses on South Asia are offered at the postgraduate level: 

Students interested in Masters level programmes in South Asian Studies can undertake a Masters by Research degree which offers a structured programme of research training over one year (full-time) or two years (part-time). This degree equips students with the core research skills required to undertake doctoral level study in the social and political sciences. As a South Asian Studies student you would work with a supervisor from the Centre for South Asian Studies on a substantive piece of research related to South Asia.

For more information visit: MScR in Social and Political Sciences 

PhD research in South Asian Studies at Edinburgh is managed from within the Graduate School of Social and Political Science, and brings together Sociology, Politics, Social Anthropology, Social Policy and Social Work.

For research in South Asian Studies, PhD and MSc supervisors can be from other subject areas, especially History, Religious Studies and Geography, although the principal supervisor should be based in the School of Social and Political Science.

We welcome applications from scholars wishing to study any aspect of society, culture or politics in South Asia including:

  • animals and society
  • art and literature
  • environment
  • historical and contemporary study of religion 
  • gender
  • family and population
  • nationalism
  • caste
  • media
  • South Asian diaspora
  • contemporary politics and identity
  • territorial politics
  • health
  • heritage

For any enquiries about this degree programme, please email futurestudents@ed.ac.uk

For more information, please follow the link:  https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-research-programmes/south-asian-studies 

Programme advisor: Prof. Jeevan Sharma, Jeevan.Sharma@ed.ac.uk