The migration of South Asians (migrants from the Indian peninsula as well as their descendants who have consciously retained a distinct ethnic and cultural identity in Southeast Asia) to Southeast Asia dates back to the emergence of regular trade...

South Asia includes the modern republics of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka—all formerly under British colonial rule—and the kingdom of Nepal. Although the foundations of modern South Asian anthropology lie in the systematic...

Standardized aesthetic norms appeared in South Asian art from about the fifth century CE, coinciding with the Gupta hegemony of the subcontinent (c. 320–c. 520 CE). The consequent canonization of art spawned a rich descriptive and normative...

Overseas South Asians—people of South Asian descent residing outside South Asia—numbered 20 million in the year 2001, comprising about 2 percent of the population of South Asia. Over 1 million people of South Asian descent reside in just...

South Asia, also known as Southern Asia, is a southern geopolitical region of the Asian continent, comprising the sub-Himalayan countries and the regions on their west and, for some authorities (see below), on the east as well. It is surrounded...

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APARNA RAO / MICHAEL J. CASIMIR (eds.), Nomadism in South Asia. (Oxford India Readings in Sociology and Social Anthropology). New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2003. XVI, 543 pages, Rs 1200, £ 26.99. ISBN 0-19-565745-4 Nomadism in South Asia has ambitious aims, namely to...

Floodwaters across south Asia began to recede Sunday as torrential monsoon rains eased, allowing doctors to treat scores of people suffering from waterborne diseases and deliver medicine to prevent the outbreak of epidemics.But hunger, thirst and the need for safe shelter still stalked the region,...

Teeming monsoon rains have inundated wide swaths of northern India and neighboring Bangladesh, killing at least 166 people and washing away villages and farmland that 19 million people depend on, officials said Thursday.With rain-swollen rivers bursting their banks along the fertile plains south of the...