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Surveying India: The Jesuit role in the literary, cultural, and artistic exchange with Europe Call for papers ESIND research cluster: Jesuit Image(s) of India...
2026-03-05 Indi@logs: Spanish Journal of India Studies has launched a call for contributions to a special issue closely related to ESIND’s thematic scope and...
The study of India’s visual heritage occupies a central position in the broader debates on colonial knowledge, artistic exchange, and the making of global...
ESIND workshop entitled “My First Time in India – Places, Peoples, Impression and Stereotypes at the First Encounter”, organized by Marianna Ferrara (Università Sapienza di...
On 6-7 February 2026, the international workshop “My First Time in India” will be held at the Antonio Pasqualino International Puppet Museum in Palermo,...
Happy new year to all participants of the COST Action ESIND! We begin 2026 with a new and exciting step in ESIND’s development: the...
As India and Europe are becoming increasingly important to each other as economic, political, and strategic partners, sensitive issues arise in their encounters. Today,...
Presenting the ERC-funded ID-SCAPES research projectSidh Losa Mendiratta, Giuseppe Resta, Tiago Cruz The cultural heritage associated with India and Bangladesh’s Christian minorities remains understudied...
Vilém Skopal During the 19th century, knowledge of Asian traditions labelled with the general category of Buddhism spread rapidly among Europeans. This was caused...
From July 7th to July 9th, the 1st ESIND Training School “Comparative Research of European Representations of India” welcomes a group of younger and...
Milan Jovanović Morski: India as the Land of ColossusesBy Danijela Lekić At the time when his native country was finding her bearings after having...
Translations of ThuggeeBy Jaro Demetter The ‘thugs’ were members of a legendary criminal collective in nineteenth-century India, who famously strangled and robbed their victims...
Horrors of Colonial Rule: Two European witnessesJakob De Roover & Martin Fárek Among the Europeans living in India during the colonial era, some became...
One of the major aims of the COST Action ESIND is to create a digital collection of (a) translations of sources on India from...
India through the eyes of Lithuanians An interview with Professor Šarūnas Paunksnis and Associate Professor Runa Chakraborty Paunksnis of the Kaunas University of Technology...
About Conference Grants Conference grants fund in-site presentation at the international conferences within the scientific fields and focus relevant for the goals of CA23144...
About Short Term Scientific Mission Grants Short Term Scientific Missions are exchange visits aimed at supporting individual mobility, strengthening existing networks and fostering collaboration...
As India and Europe are becoming increasingly important to each other as economic, political, and strategic partners, sensitive issues arise in their encounters. Today,...
The past weeks have confirmed that India is becoming more important than ever to Europe. When traditional alliances prove unreliable, we are bound to...
The annual ESIND meetings for the first year of the Action will take place at the Technical University of Liberec in the Czech Republic...
ESIND will participate in the 23rd World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, which will take place at Jagiellonian University...