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Alaka Basu

Alaka Basu

Visiting Scholar, and Former Professor, Department of Global Development

Geographic Research Area: India

Teaching/Research Interests: Population studies, reproductive health and family planning, gender and development, child health and mortality, and culture and demographic behavior

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  • Faculty
  • SAP Core Faculty

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Phone: 607-255-1247

Anindita Banerjee

Anindita Banerjee

Associate Professor, Comparative Literature

Geographic Research Area: Russia, Eurasia, and India

Teaching/Research Interests: Technology and culture, energy and the environment, media studies, and migration studies

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  • SAP Core Faculty

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Phone: 607-255-7174

Sinhala Language

SAP is the world's leading publisher of Sinhala language textbooks, with books for colloquial and literary, beginning and intermediate language learners.

Copies of our Sinhala Textbooks published in the 20th century are now available Open Access, through the links, below. Hard copies of those books, as well as of our Sinhala textbooks published in the 21st century are still available for purchase, as listed below.

Nepali Language

SAP publishes beginning and intermediate Nepali language textbooks and a Nepali-English glossary.  The Cornell University Library also hosts an online database of NGOs in Nepal.

Kaushik Basu

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Carl Marks Professor of International Studies

Kaushik Basu is the Einaudi Center's Carl Marks Professor of International Studies and professor of economics in the College of Arts and Sciences. He is is cofounder of Cornell Research Academy of Development, Law, and Economics (CRADLE), one of Einaudi's interdisciplinary research teams.

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  • SAP Core Faculty
    • SAP Advisory Council
      • Einaudi Faculty Leadership

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Darren Wan

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Graduate Student

Darren Wan is a PhD student in the History Department. His research focuses on the ways South Chinese and South Indian migrant workers articulated claims to citizenship in the early postcolonial states of Burma and Malaya.

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2024-2025

Committee chair/advisor: Eric Tagliacozzo

Discipline: History

Primary Language: Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese), Malay, Tamil

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