From South Asia to Mexico, from slave to spiritual icon, this woman’s life is a snapshot of Spain’s colonization – and the Pacific slave trade history that books often ...

Catarina de San Juan’s life reads like an epic – and her extraordinary story is little known. Born in South Asia during the early 17th century, she was captured by the Portuguese at age 8 and sold to ...
The Stanford Daily

‘South Asian Studies at Stanford Podcast’: Sharing the other sides of the story

“I want listeners to understand the breadth of the study of South Asia,” Lalita du Perron, host of the “South Asian Studies at Stanford Podcast” (SASSpod) and associate director of the Center for ...
Foreign Affairs

The End of South Asia

For decades, policymakers and scholars have been trained in the West and elsewhere to think of the countries of the Indian subcontinent as part of a coherent region: South Asia. Home to around a ...
The Diplomat

The Historical Great Powers of Asia: South Asia

Procession on the occasion of a Durbar (audience) of the Mogul Emperor Akbar of India, which includes his sons, high Indian and British dignitaries, soldiers, elephants carrying the royal insignia ...
The Diplomat

The Historical Great Powers of Asia: Medieval Southeast Asia

This piece is part of a series of articles covering the medieval and early modern great powers of each of Asia’s regions: East Asia, Central and North Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and West Asia ...