Abstracts are invited to the 2025 BASAS Annual Conference to be held at Lancaster University from 10 to 12 September 2025.

The conference will showcase pioneering scholarship on South Asia from the Subcontinent and across the world. This will be an interdisciplinary conference, bringing together expertise from across the arts, humanities and social sciences.

We particularly encourage contributions from scholars working on regions from the subcontinent outside India. We are also keen to promote scholarship on the pre-modern study of histories, languages and cultures of South Asia.

We are happy to accept submissions for thematic, inter-disciplinary panels (of a maximum of four papers) and individual submissions. Panel submissions should include a brief (100 words max) overview of the panel’s theme and a list of the contributors and paper titles. Please submit panels proposals directly by email: southasiacollective@lancaster.ac.uk

Abstracts, for individual papers and papers included in panels, should be of no more than 250 words. Please indicate below if your paper is part of a panel.

The deadline for submission of panels and abstracts is 15 April 2025.

Please note that the 2025 BASAS Annual Conference is a members-only event. If you are not currently a BASAS member, you can join BASAS now.

Selected participants will be notified of the acceptance by 2nd weeks of May. The final papers should be submitted by 1st August 2025.