The Perso-Indica Visiting Fellowship (2012) has been awarded to Kashshaf Ghani and Audrey Truschke

The Perso-Indica Visiting Fellowships are offered with the support of the research group «Mondes iranien et indien» (UMR 7528) and the Fondation Colette Caillat of the Institut de France.

Kashshaf Ghani

The Asiatic Society, Calcutta - Perso-Indica Visiting Fellow from 1st to 31st March 2012

Sir Syed Amir Ali Fellow, The Asiatic Society, Calcutta 

Guest Lecturer in History, Aliah University, Calcutta

Research project 

«Monotheistic Ideas in Nineteenth Century Bengal: The Tuhfat al-Muwahhidin»

• Le 16 mars 2012, intervention de Kashshaf Ghani à la XIVème Journée monde iranien.

Titre de la communication: « Vestige of a Dying Tradition? The Persian Tract of Tuhfat al-Muwahhidin in Nineteenth Century Bengal »

Audrey Truschke

Columbia University, New York - Perso-Indica Visiting Fellow from 17 May to 17 June 2012

Research project 

«Internal Frontiers: Sanskrit and Persian Encounters in the Mughal Empire»

Audrey Truschke is currently finishing her PhD at Columbia University (New York City) in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies. Her research focuses on cross-cultural interactions between members of Sanskrit and Persian literary cultures in Mughal India. She will defend her dissertation, titled "Cosmopolitan Encounters: Sanskrit and Persian at the Mughal Court," early March 2012.

• Le 30-31 mai 2012, intervention de Audrey Truschke au colloque : The 1st Perso-Indica Conference: Translating and Writing Indic Learning in Persian.

Lieu: Université Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris 3.

Titre de la communication: «Contested Translation in Akbar's Persian Ramayana»

• Le jeudi 7 juin 2012, 17h-18h, intervention de Audrey Truschke au séminaire « Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien », organisé par l'UMR Mondes iranien et indien.

Lieu: Université Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris 3, Centre Censier, 13 rue Santeuil, Paris, salle Las Vergnas (3e étage).