The AAS South Asia Council (SAC)

The South Asia Council (SAC) is one of four regional councils operating within the Association for Asian Studies (AAS). Created in 1970, these councils represent the interests of scholars working in their respective geographical areas.

Collectively, the four area councils and the Council of Conferences serve as the major policy body for the Association of Asian Studies, providing liaison between the Board of Directors and the members at large.

The South Asia Council administers the Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize, which honors the author of the best English-language work in South Asian studies.

SAC Council Members

Chair: David Magier, Columbia University, magier@columbia.edu

Srimati Basu, University of Kentucky, srimati.basu@uky.edu
Durba Ghosh, Cornell University, dg256@cornell.edu
Bernard Bate, Yale U., bernard.bate@yale.edu
Husain Haqqani, Boston University, haqqani@bu.edu
Cabieri D. Robinson, University of Washington, cdr33@u.washington.edu
Elora Chowdhury, University of Massachusetts-Boston, Elora.Chowdhury@umb.edu
Ajay Sinha, Mount Holyoke College, asinha@mtholyoke.edu
Ramya Sreenivasan, SUNY-Buffalo, rs75@buffalo.edu

SAC Committees

Committee on South Asian Libraries and Documentation (CONSALD)

AAS Affiliated Groups Related to SAC

American Council for Southern Asian Art (ACSAA)

American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies (AISLS)

American Institute for Bangladesh Studies (AIBS)

American Insititue of Indian Studies (AIIS)

American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS)

Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies (ANHS)

Independent Scholars of South Asia (ISOSA)

Maharashtra Studies Group

Rajasthan Studies Group

South Asia Language Resource Center (SALRC)

South Asia Summer Language Institute (SASLI)