Alumni South Asia

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Field:Anthropology, Islam, South Asia and Social Movements
Country of origin: India
Period of stay at IIAS: From March 1 2006 to June 1 2006
Status: Affiliated Fellow
Home institute:
Research topic: Contesting Islamism: Immanent Critique of Jamaat e-Islami of India

Alessandro Graheli

Field: Aesthetics and Theology
Country of origin: Italy
Period of stay at IIAS: 01/11/2007 - 28/02/2008
Status: Gonda fellow
Home institute: University of Turin
Research topic: Critical edition, English translation, and study of Rūpa Gosvāmin's Bhaktirasāmṛtasindhu, beginning with the first chapter, Sāmānyabhakti, with Jīva Gosvāmin's commentary.

Alexandre Sotov

Field: Indology
Country of origin: Russia
Period of stay at IIAS: 26/01/2006 - 25/06/2006
Status: Affiliated Fellow, sponsored by Gonda foundation
Home institute: St. Petersburg State University
Research topic: Ideology of Tradition: a Study in Rgvedic Semantics

Field:Development Economics / Social Economics
Country of origin: Sri Lanka
Period of stay at IIAS: 12 December 2008 -
Status: Visiting Fellow
Home institute: Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ruhuna, Mapalana, Kamburupitiya, Sri Lanka
Research topic: Cooperation in a context of a Crisis: Public-Private partnerships in the management of small scale fisheries in South Asia.

Andrew Glass

Field: Gāndhārī Language and Literature
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Period of stay at IIAS: 01/04/2008 - 01/05/2008
Status: Numata visiting professor in Buddhist studies
Home institute: University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Research topic: Gandhāran Buddhism

Field:History of modern India
Country of origin: India
Period of stay at IIAS: October – December 2007
Status: Affiliated Fellow
Home institute: Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Research topic: Meanings of Freedom: Decolonization and Politics of Transition in West Bengal, 1947-52
Field:Sanskrit grammatical tradition
Country of origin: Italy
Period of stay at IIAS: May-June 2008
Status: Affiliated fellow
Home institute: Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris
Research topic: The metalinguistic chapters of Nārāyaṇa Bhaṭṭa’s Prakriyāsarvasva
Field: Sino-Tibetan languages and linguistics
Country of origin: Russia
Period of stay at IIAS: 1 September 2005 – 1 April 2008
Status: Programme coordinator
Home institute: Centre de recherches linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale, CNRS (France)
Research topic: Trans-Himalayan database development: China and the Subcontinent, sponsored by CASS and KNAW
Field:Cultural-Religious History and Political Theory
Country of origin: the Netherlands
Period of stay at IIAS: 21 October 2007 - 1 May 2009
Status: Affiliated Fellow
Home institute:
Research topic: Religious tolerance and the History of Bangladesh - A Study in the Evolution of Bengal’s Religious-Cultural Traditions and Politics.
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Field:Vedic studies
Country of origin: Italy
Period of stay at IIAS: 1 April – 31 May 2009
Status: Affiliated fellow (Gonda Fellow)
Home institute: Ecole pratique des hautes études, Religious studies, Paris
Research topic: The Skandasvamibhasya on the Rg-Veda. A Critical Study (II)