[INDOLOGY] British Association of South Asian Studies Annual Conference 2025: Call for Abstracts

[Bihani Sarkar]

Dear Colleagues,

As organizers of the 2025 British Association of South Asian Studies
(BASAS) Annual Conference, Prof. Deborah Sutton and I are pleased to
announce that abstracts are invited to this year's conference to be
held at *Lancaster
University, UK,* from 10 to 12 September 2025.

The conference will showcase pioneering scholarship on South Asia from the
Subcontinent and across the world. This will be an interdisciplinary
conference, bringing together expertise from across the arts, humanities
and social sciences.

We particularly encourage contributions from scholars working on regions
from the subcontinent outside India. We are also keen to promote
scholarship on the pre-modern study of histories, languages and cultures of
South Asia.

We are happy to accept submissions for thematic, inter-disciplinary panels
(of a maximum of four papers) and individual submissions.

Abstracts should be of no more than 300 words. Panel submissions should
include a brief (100 words max) overview of the panel’s theme. Abstracts
must include: contributor(s) name(s) and affiliation(s), paper title(s) and
contact email address(es). *Submit abstracts and panel proposals via this
form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-Gscp3KgDgidlwhJ4IfBPK-KTVt7lTfsSUR7VGhkFgA/viewform?pli=1&pli=1&edit_requested=true>.*

The deadline for submission of abstracts is *15 April 2025.*

*Please note that the 2025 BASAS Annual Conference is a members-only event*.
If you are not currently a BASAS member, you can join BASAS now
<https://www.basas.org.uk/become-a-member/>.

A limited number of bursaries will be available and will be advertised on
the *conference website * (*here:
https://www.basas.org.uk/news-events/basas-conference-2025/
<https://www.basas.org.uk/news-events/basas-conference-2025/>*) in due
course.

For conference-related queries, please email
*southasiacollective at lancaster.ac.uk <southasiacollective at lancaster.ac.uk>*


With best wishe

Bihani Sarkar MA M.Phil D.Phil (Oxon.) FRHistS, FHEA,

Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Comparative Non-Western Thought,

Programme Director: *Global Religions*

Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion,

Lancaster University.

For a full list of publications see: *Bihani Sarkar - Lancaster University
<https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/ppr/people/bihani-sarkar>*


*Books:*
*Heroic Shaktism: the Cult of Durga in Ancient Indian Kingship (OUP 2017):
<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Facademic.oup.com%2Fbritish-academy-scholarship-online%2Fbook%2F35815&data=05%7C02%7Cb.sarkar1%40lancaster.ac.uk%7Ca73198f9f5be490679e708dc8acbb83c%7C9c9bcd11977a4e9ca9a0bc734090164a%7C0%7C0%7C638537854775951041%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=%2FZ7Ek8ww3Etn2FYh15M5SfjKyqhLSNMsA84xNRn0nSk%3D&reserved=0>*
*Classical Sanskrit Tragedy: the Concept of Pathos and Suffering in
Medieval India
<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomsbury.com%2Fuk%2Fclassical-sanskrit-tragedy-9781788311113%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cb.sarkar1%40lancaster.ac.uk%7Ca73198f9f5be490679e708dc8acbb83c%7C9c9bcd11977a4e9ca9a0bc734090164a%7C0%7C0%7C638537854775959159%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=a78JbxRi0L31ITAN8V8VrXg%2BI1txgFeODMixUQOWDjY%3D&reserved=0>
(Bloomsbury
Academic, 2021)*

*Latest Journal Article (peer-reviewed): The Politics of Memory: Tradition,
Decolonization and Challenging Hindutva, a Reflective Essay
<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mdpi.com%2F2077-1444%2F15%2F5%2F564&data=05%7C02%7Cb.sarkar1%40lancaster.ac.uk%7Ca73198f9f5be490679e708dc8acbb83c%7C9c9bcd11977a4e9ca9a0bc734090164a%7C0%7C0%7C638537854775965607%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=EZTvKJlwSPH5hwjHCsn32ks8hYGZi3E1vMqE0q7iYGE%3D&reserved=0>
(*
*Religions* *2024**, **15**(5), 564)*
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