About Project South Asia

About Project South Asia

About PSA

Housed electronically at both South Dakota State University (SDSU) and at Missouri Southern State University, and with its offices at SDSU, Project South Asia is a Web-based digital library for improving the study and teaching of South Asia, focusing especially on India and Pakistan. It creates and introduces an innovative materials and resource development program, designed to assist professors in advancing the study and teaching of South Asian history and culture across several disciplines and at various levels throughout the post-secondary curriculum. Begun in February 2000, the project is strong in history, political science, and international affairs, but also emphasizes other disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, art history, drama, economics, geography, languages, law, literature, philosophy, religion, sociology, and women's studies, among others. The project will help stimulate faculty involvement and create new faculty capabilities in history, international affairs, and other disciplines, including languages. It will help improve the teaching of existing courses (including those which may not normally include units on South Asia) and aid in the development of new courses in South Asian Studies.

Project South Asia includes these three major objectives:

Creating linkages across academic departments and with other institutions of higher education, both in the U.S. and internationally, to support the goals of the project by stimulating a wider faculty involvement.

Creating an innovative South Asian Studies Website from which a global audience can gain easy access to information and resources on the study and teaching of South Asia.

Creating a unique on-line journal, Teaching South Asia, freely accessible through the project Website, which is devoted exclusively to promoting the study and teaching of South Asia at the post-secondary level.