AISLS has awarded four fellowships for scholars to carry out research in Sri Lanka. Catherine Becker (Art History, University of Illinois at Chicago), Miracle-performing Monks and Relocated Relics: Artistic Exchange between Buddhist Communities in Andhra Pradesh and Sri Lanka. Mythri…

AISLS has awarded a dissertation planning grant to Kalyani Ramnath (History, Princeton University) for her project on “Mrs. Senewiratne’s Suicide: Lawyers, Jurors and Medical Experts in the British Empire”.

On March 28, 2014, AISLS held a forum at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in Philadelphia.  The topic was the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship, a transnational Sufi order established in Philadelphia in 1971. The Fellowship is based…