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C.M. Naim, pioneer of Urdu studies and beloved mentor, 1936–2025
Choudhri Mohammed Naim, better known as C.M. Naim, passed away in Hyde Park, Chicago, on July 9, 2025. Naim—called Naim Sahib by his students and ...
Two perspectives on representing climate change
A historian–postcolonial theorist and a literature scholar make sense of a global crisis.
Dipesh Chakrabarty is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished...
Do they say “dude” in India?
Daisy Rockwell, winner of the International Booker Prize, on the subtleties of literary translationEarly in her graduate studies in South Asian Langua...
How to win at “Tamil Scrabble”
Improvements drive scholars—and tabletop gamers—to the Digital Dictionaries of South Asia.
The Digital Dictionaries of South Asia (DDSA), an online r...
Diaspora and descent
Jazmin Graves, AM’15, studies the religious songs of Afrodescendants in India.Jazmin Graves, AM’15, who plans to graduate with a PhD in South Asian La...
UChicago Humanities Scholars Expand Digital Dictionaries of South Asia, Middle East
The following was published in UChicago News on November 24, 2020.
For decades, scholars at the University of Chicago have sought to preserve and sha...
Two Perspectives on Translation
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Translation is often the closest way to read a text. Two scholars discuss the process, its pitfalls, and ultimately its payoffs.Jason Grunebaum is sen...
An Epic Endeavor
As SALC turns 50, a Sanskrit translation gains new life.
Contemplating the death and destruction likely to follow from the first successful nuclear t...
From Poetry to Particle Physics
The University’s Center in Delhi creates new opportunities for global exchange.
The newest of the University of Chicago’s global teaching and researc...
Inaugural Vivekananda Visiting Professors Announced
Sir Christopher Bayly of Cambridge University and David Shulman of Hebrew University have been appointed as the first recipients of the Indian Ministr...