The Center for the Advanced Study of INDIA at the University of Pennsylvania is the first research institution in the United States dedicated to the study of contemporary India.
India in Transition
Anxieties about the power of media forms to influence social behavior have always been at the center of media regulation efforts. This can be seen in contemporary India, for instance, in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting’s latest advisory directed at “Online Curated Content Platforms”—what most of us now know as OTT (over-the-top) streaming platforms.
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Migrants and Machine Politics by Tariq Thachil & Adam Auerbach has won the 2025 Francine Frankel Prize for Best Book from the South Asia Politics Section of the American Political Science Association.
CASI congratulates all recent 2025 Penn graduates and wishes everyone a safe, happy, and healthy summer!
CASI Non-Res Scholar & Former Postdoc Sarath Pillai
"From International to Imperial: The Indian Princely States, International Law, and the Ends of Empire in South Asia" Leiden Journal of International Law, May 23, 2025
Annual Report 2023-24
View our highlights from the past year and learn about some of our plans for the coming year.