Variant of CIP 2000 - NGS University-level Historical Groupings

• 2 - Social Sciences, Psychology and Law
• 23 - Disciplines in the Social Sciences
• 05.01 - Area Studies

05.0112 - South Asian Studies

This instructional program class comprises any program that focuses on the history, society, politics, culture, and economics of one or more of the peoples of South Asia, defined as including Afghanistan, India, the Maldives, Myanmar (Burma), Pakistan, and Sri Lanka and related borderlands and island groups; and including the study of migration patterns and overseas diasporas.

• Example Program Names:

  • South Asian studies

• Exclusion

  • Asian area studies(05.0103)
  • South Asian languages(16.0700)
  • Asian history(54.0106)