South Asia Research@Warwick

Warwick boasts of research expertise on South Asia across its faculties (Arts, Science, Medicine and Social Sciences). Much of what we do explores long- and short-term experiences of change within South Asia (its economic, social, political and natural worlds), as well as in the relationships between India and other regions and nations.

Although there is a variety of research that looks into areas such as industry and manufacture, leisure, corporate cultures, politics and political change, epideomiology and financial strategies; Warwick boasts of a particularly strong tradition of cultivating links across formal academic cohorts. Across disciplines and fields of expertise, we tap into the dynamic global interface connecting universities with the ‘third sector.’ In this, we nourish our strong linkages some of South Asia’s most high-profile thought leaders in academia, NGOs, and the arts. By cultivating dialog and exchange between ‘change makers' at Warwick and in South Asia, we work towards effecting impactful interventions across global scholarly, corporate and governmental sectors.

Within the specific countries of South Asia, Warwick’s academic community regularly produces scholarship about Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Key themes include: state and extra state violence, conflict and resolution, engineering (innovation in built structures; rainwater harvesting), new technologies and microfinance, formal and informal enterprise, health and disability, and gender and employment, culture.

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