Dr Anandi Rao
Lecturer in South Asian Studies

- Email: ar75@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 460
- Academic Support Hours: Wednesday 11-13:00 or by appointment
Head of the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
Dr Nana Sato-Rossberg
Head of South Asia Section
Mr Naresh Sharma
BA Convenors
Mr Naresh Sharma and Dr Lidia Wojtczak (all BA programmes and ISP / Extended Essay)
MA Convenors
Dr David Lunn and Dr Ben Murtagh
Research Tutor; PhD Admissions Tutor
Professor Wen-chin Ouyang
UG Admissions Tutor
Mr Mohamed Said
UG Academic Advisers
Year1: Mr Naresh Sharma
Years 2-4: Dr Lidia Wojtczak
NB: Masters Students, your Academic Adviser is your MA Programme Convenor
UG Exams Sub-board
Professor Rachel Harrison (Chair)
Hindi language.
Indian history; religions; Sanskrit; yoga; Śaivism; āyurveda; textual criticism; codicology
Indian history and religions, sādhus, yoga, Asian psychoactive plants
History of Indian religions; Śaivism; mediaeval history of yoga; castes; Indian poetry; Indian inscriptions
The modern and pre-modern history of yoga.
Structural and descriptive linguistics, syntax, semantics, Bengali grammar and lexicography, philosophy of language
Hindi Cinema; Indian popular culture; Indian film; Hinduism; new middle classes; Mumbai/Bombay
Punjabi and Urdu languages and literatures; regional languages of Pakistan and North-West India; Sufism and Islam in South Asia; Sikhism and its scriptures; comparative literature of the Islamic world.