South Asia

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Image from the Mapping Africa’s Endangered Archaeological Sites and Monuments project.

Arcadia awards over £10 million for 2 major archaeology projects

20 Aug 2024

The charitable foundation awards £10.3 million for the continuation of 2 Cambridge projects mapping endangered archaeological heritage in South Asia...

Getting girls into school in Pakistan's Punjab region

Opinion: Imposing an arbitrary national language would only divide Pakistan further

14 Sep 2016

Arthur Dudney (Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies) discusses Pakistan's struggle over what language to use for government.

Mid-19th-century map with a line linking Britain to India

Cambridge and India

05 Oct 2015

Cambridge’s engagement with India has evolved from scholars working on India to scholars working with , and increasingly, in India – on shared...

Cambridge gets REAL about overcoming obstacles to global education

18 Jun 2015

The Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre aims to promote education as an engine for sustainable development.

“Where you are going is more important than how fast you are going”

‘Light skin’ gene mirrors socio-cultural boundaries in Indian population

13 Nov 2013

Latest research shows that the presence of the genetic mutation for lighter skin - found in “almost 100%” of Europeans - broadly conforms to many...

Until lions write their own history…

12 Jul 2013

An exhibition of contemporary textile art by Deanna Tyson has opened at the Alison Richard Building in response to the unique materials held there...

Leaflet dropped on Malayan insurgents, urging them to come forward with a Bren gun and receive a $1,000 reward., Credit: Credit: UK Department of Information.

PsyWar during the Malayan Emergency

26 Feb 2013

As part of the Intelligence seminars run by the Faculty of History, Thomas J. Maguire examines how psychological warfare contributed to Britain's...

Coal labourers on the Bangladeshi side of Boropani

A border without frontiers

16 Oct 2012

As India sets about constructing a metal curtain along the full length of its border with Bangladesh, Cambridge anthropology graduate Delwar Hussain...

Gurkha recruits awaiting inspection c.1950. The never-before-seen footage has been released to mark the launch of the Amateur Cinema Studies Network, http://amateurcinemastudies.org.

Candid camera

19 Jun 2012

After years of being overlooked as a film genre, amateur cinema is finally being recognised by academics as a form that merits serious study in its...